The Museum of Modern Art Appoints Evangelos Kotsioris as Director of the Emilio Ambasz Institute for the Joint Study of the Built and the Natural Environment

The Museum of Modern Art announces the appointment of Evangelos Kotsioris as the director of the Emilio Ambasz Institute for the Joint Study of the Built and the Natural Environment. Kotsioris will also serve as a curator in the Museum’s Department of Architecture and Design, where he will lead initiatives focused on ecology and sustainability in collaboration with all six of the Museum’s curatorial departments. In his role as director of the Ambasz Institute, he will develop a robust and diverse roster of exhibitions, along with digital and onsite programs that address the interconnectedness of architecture and ecology. Moreover, he will develop an acquisitions strategy for the collection, focusing on groundbreaking projects that advance sustainable practices in architecture. Kotsioris has begun his new role, effective today.

“The Ambasz Institute was founded to advocate for architecture as an ecological and cultural practice, and to provoke new ways of imagining the built environment at every scale. At a time when the climate crisis can induce paralysis or despair, it underscores architecture’s capacity to shape alternative futures,” said Evangelos Kotsioris. “In its next chapter, my vision is for the Institute to evolve into a generator of original, robust, and inspiring research, advanced through publications, public programs, exhibitions, and acquisitions—a home for lively dialogue among architects, designers, scholars, artists, and the public on how we can live together on a fragile planet.”

“I am thrilled to appoint Evangelos Kotsioris as the new director of the Ambasz Institute” said Martino Stierli, MoMA’s Philip Johnson Chief Curator of Architecture and Design. “In his previous capacities in the department, he has consistently proven his intellectual rigor, leadership skills, and investment in matters of architecture and ecology. Evangelos is ideally equipped to successfully steer the Ambasz Institute into its next phase.”