The Emilio Ambasz Institute for the Joint Study of the Built and the Natural Environment is a platform for fostering dialogue, promoting conversation, and facilitating research about the relationship between the built and natural environment, with the aim of making the interaction between architecture and ecology visible and accessible to the wider public while highlighting the urgent need for an ecological recalibration.
Ambasz Institute Events
Next on Tue, Mar 4, 10:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m.
Online

Events
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DocTalks x MoMA with Yosuke Nakatomo and Rebecca Yuste
Lecture/panel
Tue, Mar 4, 10:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m.
Online
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DocTalks x MoMA with Zheming (Taro) Cai and Joy Zhu
Lecture/panel
Tue, Apr 1, 10:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m.
Online
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DocTalks x MoMA with Nikki Moore and Diego Caro
Lecture/panel
Tue, May 20, 8:30–10:30 a.m.
Online
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DocTalks x MoMA with Javairia Shahid and Carolina Sepúlveda
Lecture/panel
Tue, Feb 4, 8:00–10:00 a.m.
Online
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Wet Urbanisms
Lecture/panel
Fri, Jan 17, 6:00–8:00 p.m.
MoMA, Mezzanine
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DocTalks x MoMA with Sofia Leoni and Zhijian Sun
Lecture/panel
Tue, Jan 7, 8:00–10:00 a.m.
Online
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DocTalks x MoMA with Anna Ulak and Shuyi Yin
Lecture/panel
Tue, Dec 10, 2024, 10:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m.
Online
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DocTalks x MoMA with Stefano Tornieri and Sean Thomas Tyler
Lecture/panel
Tue, Oct 8, 2024, 10:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m.
Online
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DocTalks x MoMA with Dámaso Randulfe and João Cruz
Lecture/panel
Tue, Sep 10, 2024, 10:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m.
Online
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DocTalks x MoMA with Clarissa Lim Kye Lee
Lecture/panel
Thu, Jun 27, 2024, 8:00–9:00 a.m.
Online
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DocTalks × MoMA with Marjana Krajač
Lecture/panel
Tue, Jun 18, 2024, 10:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m.
Online
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The Aquatic Brain
Lecture/panel
Sun, Jun 16, 2024, 6:00–8:00 p.m.
MoMA, Mezzanine
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DocTalks × MoMA with Chiara Toscani and Kira Clingen
Lecture/panel
Tue, Jun 4, 2024, 10:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m.
Online
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DocTalks × MoMA, with Shehrazade Mahassini and Samarth Vachhrajani
Lecture/panel
Tue, May 28, 2024, 10:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m.
Online
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Ambasz Earth Day Lecture 2024 with Maya Lin
Lecture/panel
Fri, Apr 19, 2024, 6:00–7:00 p.m.
Online
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DocTalks x MoMA with James Fortuna and Alice Pozzati
Lecture/panel
Tue, Apr 9, 2024, 10:00 a.m.–12:00 p.m.
Online
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Celebrating the Built Ecologies Video Series
Film
Sat, Jan 20, 2024, 4:00–6:00 p.m.
MoMA, Mezzanine
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Circular Museum: Ecology and Sustainability beyond Museum Walls
Lecture/panel
Tue, Aug 29, 2023, 11:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m.
Recording now available
Online
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Circular Museum: Representing and Implementing Alternative Futures
Lecture/panel
Wed, Jul 5, 2023, 12:00–1:30 p.m.
Online
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Circular Museum: The Journey to Sustainability Onsite
Lecture/panel
Fri, Jun 9, 2023, 10:00–11:30 a.m.
Recording now available
Online
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Material Worlds: Given Conditions
Lecture/panel
Tue, May 16, 2023, 12:00 p.m.
Recording now available
Online
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Circular Museum: Systematic Designs to Tackle Waste and Maximize Building Efficiency
Lecture/panel
Wed, May 10, 2023, 11:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m.
Recording now available
Online
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Ambasz Earth Day Lecture 2023
Lecture/panel
Wed, Apr 19, 2023, 5:00–6:30 p.m.
Online
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Circular Museum: Exploring Sustainability through Experimentation
Lecture/panel
Tue, Apr 11, 2023, 11:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m.
Recording now available
Online
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Material Worlds: Lithospheres
Lecture/panel
Thu, Apr 6, 2023, 12:00 p.m.
Online
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Circular Museum: Ways of Collecting and Commissioning
Lecture/panel
Tue, Feb 28, 2023, 11:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m.
Recording now available
Online
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Material Worlds: Silica Signals
Lecture/panel
Thu, Feb 23, 2023, 6:00 p.m.
Online
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Material Worlds: Liquid Particles
Lecture/panel
Thu, Jan 12, 2023, 6:00 p.m.
Online
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Material Worlds: Water Futures
Lecture/panel
Thu, Dec 1, 2022, 12:00 p.m.
Online
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Material Worlds: Photosynthetics
Lecture/panel
Thu, Oct 20, 2022, 12:00 p.m.
Online
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Summit: Architecture Studio in the Anthropocene
Wed, Sep 28, 2022, 5:00–6:15 p.m.
Online
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Material Worlds: Solar
Lecture/panel
Thu, Sep 8, 2022, 2:00 p.m.
Online
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Material Worlds: Earth
Lecture/panel
Tue, May 17, 2022, 4:00–5:30 p.m.
Online
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Material Worlds: Concrete
Lecture/panel
Fri, Apr 15, 2022, 5:00–6:30 p.m.
Online
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Material Worlds: Plastic
Lecture/panel
Sat, Mar 26, 2022, 11:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m.
Online
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Material Worlds: Carbon
Lecture/panel
Tue, Mar 1, 2022, 6:30–8:00 p.m.
Online
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Material Worlds: Waste
Lecture/panel
Thu, Feb 10, 2022, 4:30–6:00 p.m.
Online
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Material Worlds: Mass Timber
Lecture/panel
Tue, Dec 14, 2021, 6:30–8:00 p.m.
Online