Gonzalo Herrero Delicado is a curator, educator and architect based in London with over 15 years of experience developing curatorial projects and creative strategies for leading cultural organisations worldwide. His recent projects explore the impact of the climate crisis and digital technologies on the world around us through design and art practices.

He is an Associate Lecturer at the Royal College of Art and Central Saint Martins where he also runs the course The Architecture of Fashion. Previously, he was a Design Fellow at the University of Cambridge and taught at Kingston University.

He was the Director of the Ecocity World Summit 2023, the pioneer and longest-running global conference on ecology and cities, held at the Barbican Centre in London. Before that, he curated the exhibition Tomorrow Today (2022-2025) which opened the new Museum of the Future in Dubai. From 2016 to 2021, he was the Curator of the Architecture Programme at the Royal Academy of Arts where he curated Eco-Visionaries (2019-2020) and Invisible Landscapes (2018-2019), among many other exhibitions, displays and public programmes. Previously, he held different curatorial positions at the Design Museum and The Architecture Foundation.

His independent curatorial portfolio includes projects for the Mies van der Rohe Foundation, V&A, Barbican Centre, Tate, Serpentine Galleries, Goldsmiths University and the Arquia Foundation. He has developed consultancy projects for various organisations including the Earthshot Prize, the Ministry of Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda, Meta, LVMH, Climate Art and UCL. 

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He has co-edited two books Conversations on a Planet in a State of Emergency (RA, 2019) and Fear and Love: Reactions to a complex world (Phaidon, 2016). His writing has been published in Domus, Abitare, Neo2, Architectural Digest, Mark, Blueprint, Arquine and A10, amongst others. His work has been widely featured in international media including the Guardian, Monocle, Wired, Financial Times, Wallpaper*, The Times and El País.  

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He is a regular speaker and moderator in international forums. He has delivered lectures at leading universities, museums and organisations including Harvard University GSD, ETH Zurich, Bartlett School of Architecture, Tate, Barbican, Misk Art Institute, London Design Biennale and Whitechapel Gallery.

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As an architect, he worked for the Pritzker Prize-winning practice Lacaton & Vassal Architectes in Paris.