Evangelos Kotsioris
Evangelos Kotsioris is the director of the Emilio Ambasz Institute for the Joint Study of the Built and the Natural Environment, and curator in the Department of Architecture and Design. His most recent curatorial work has focused on making visible architecture’s ecological and societal dimensions across diverse contexts. The exhibition Reuse, Renew, Recycle: Recent Architecture from China (2021–22) examined socially and environmentally sustainable architectural practices in China, from adaptive and material reuse to the reinterpretation of local building traditions; Architecture Now: New York, New Publics (2023) highlighted public housing, urban parks, and social infrastructure as tools of environmental justice; and Down to Earth (2024–27) explores how architecture might recalibrate our relationship to the ground, one another, and “more-than-human” life. As a member of Contemporary and Modern Art Perspectives (C-MAP), MoMA’s global research initiative, Kotsioris has spearheaded major acquisitions that have made visible architectural responses to climate precarity, Indigenous knowledge systems, and historically overlooked practices within the Museum’s collection.
Kotsioris holds a professional degree in architecture and engineering from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, an MArch II from Harvard University, and a PhD in history and theory from Princeton University. He has taught architecture at the University of Pennsylvania, Barnard College and Columbia University, Princeton University School of Architecture, the Cooper Union, and Harvard Graduate School of Design. He is the author of Kisho Kurokawa: Nakagin Capsule Tower (2025) and co-editor of Radical Pedagogies (2022).