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Emilio Ambasz. Grand Rapids Art Museum, project Grand Rapids, Michigan Perspective. 1975. Cut-and-pasted sepia diazotype with color crayon on paper and airbrush, 30 x 40" (76.2 x 101.6 cm). Gift of The Howard Gilman Foundation
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Introduction
Emilio Ambasz (born June 13, 1943, in Resistencia, Chaco, Argentina) is an Argentinian-US architect and award-winning industrial designer. From 1969 to 1976 he was Curator of Design at the Museum of Modern Art, in New York. Ambasz has been labeled as "the father, poet, and prophet" of the green architecture by Japanese architect Tadao Ando. Ambasz's trademark style is a combination of buildings and gardens, which he describes as 'green over grey'. He bucked the trends of the 1970s, hiding his buildings under grass or putting them on boats. The MOMA established in 2020 the Emilio Ambasz Institute for the Joint Study of the Built and the Natural Environment. Curator, writer, and educator, Carson Chan was appointed as its first director.
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Introduction
Born in Argentina, Ambasz was educated at Princeton, and from 1969-1976 was Curator of Design at MOMA, in New York City. He works include the Banque Bruxelles Lambert offices in Milan, Lausanne and New York (1981), and the offices of Financial Guaranty Insurance Company in New York (1986) which won him the International Interior Design Award. Argentinian architect; educated and act. in U.S. from 1960's.
Nationalities
American, Argentine, South American
Gender
Male
Roles
Artist, Architect, Curator, Designer, Industrial Designer
Name
Emilio Ambasz
Ulan
500016432
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Works

24 works online

Exhibitions

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Publications

  • Emerging Ecologies: Architecture and the Rise of Environmentalism Edited by Carson Chan and Matthew Wagstaffe, 2023 Exhibition catalogue, Hardcover, 224 pages
  • Emilio Ambasz/Steven Holl Stuart Wrede, 1989 Exhibition catalogue, Paperback, 24 pages
  • The Taxi Project: Realistic Solutions for Today Emilio Ambasz, 1976 Exhibition catalogue, Paperback, pages
  • Italy: The New Domestic Landscape Emilio Ambasz, 1972 Exhibition catalogue, Paperback, pages
  • Italy: The New Domestic Landscape Emilio Ambasz, 1972 Exhibition catalogue, Clothbound, pages
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