"Emilio Ambas:
from architecture to nature"

in the Pharmaceutical Order of the Museum of Architecture

State Museum of Architecture named after A.V. Shchuseva presents the exhibition "Emilio Ambas: from architecture to nature." The exposition will tell about the innovative works of an outstanding American architect, industrial designer and curator.

Born in 1943 in the city of Resistencia, Chaco in Argentina, he studied at Princeton University, where in two years he received bachelor’s and master’s degrees in architecture. Together with Peter Eisenman, he was co-founder of the Research Institute of Architecture and Urbanism, IAUS in New York (1967-84). He was curator of the design department (1970-1976) of the Museum of Modern Art in New York (MoMA), where he organized exhibitions such as "Italy: a new home landscape" in 1972 and "Architecture of Luis Barragan" in 1974. In 1976, Ambas founded New York own architectural studio. In the same year, he represented the United States at the Venice Biennale. Among the awards are the Progressive Architecture Award (1976, 1980, 1985) and the victory in the competition for the general plan of the World Expo in Seville (1992). Since 1980, Ambas has been the chief designer of Cummins Engine Co. He holds many design patents and is the inventor of the world’s first ergonomic chair (1976).

Emilio Ambas is one of the pioneers of environmental architecture whose projects are originally and poetically integrated into nature. The architect lives in New York and Bologna. Before Moscow, the exhibition was held in Singapore, Beijing and Shanghai. Among the main exhibits are a model of a private house near Seville (2004), photographs, drawings and films.

On April 3, as part of the opening of the exhibition, a lecture by the curator and organizer of the exhibition in Moscow, Vladimir Belogolovsky, will be held.