Evangelos Kotsioris: Science and Architecture Making [use of] evidence

Tuesday, July 3, 2018, 6 - 7pm

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Evangelos Kotsioris is a New York-based architectural historian and architect whose research focuses on the intersections of architecture with science, technology and media. His doctoral research at Princeton School of Architecture has received the Carter Manny Citation for Special Recognition by the Graham Foundation. He is currently a Curatorial Assistant in the Department of Architecture at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the curator of the exhibition Lab Cult: An unorthodox history of interchanges between science and architecture at the Canadian Centre for Architecture, where he was selected as the 2016-17 Emerging Curator. Kotsioris has been a travelling fellow of the Society of Architectural Historians and a graduate fellow of the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies. He has taught at Harvard, Princeton, the Boston Architectural Center and The Cooper Union. His writing has appeared in Perspecta, New Geographies, The Architectural Review, Volume, Manifest, Conditions, On Site, Pidgin and elsewhere.

Presented as part of the Master of Architecture II Summer 2018 Lecture Series.

Room 712F. 

Located at 7 East 7th Street, between Third and Fourth Avenues

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