Lecture by Evangelos Kotsioris (MoMA), part of University by Design event series

Evangelos Kotsioris, Assistant Curator in Architecture and Design at The Museum of Modern Art in New York, will lecture on Tuesday 11 November at 5:30 pm. His lecture is part of the Fall 2025 University by Design event series, co-produced by the Architecture Programs of the Daniel and Gayle D’Aniello Syracuse University in Florence, California State University International Programs Italy and Kent State University Florence. It will be held at Palazzo Vettori (Via Cavour 26, Firenze).

Titled The (Secret) Life of Architecture, Evangelos Kotsioris’s talk will expand on the notion that architecture does not end at completion. Buildings gain meaning through the lives that unfold within them—the daily rituals, improvised uses, and personal attachments that animate space. Can exhibitions become tools not only for conveying the intentions of architects, but also for revealing the lived afterlives of buildings? Drawing on recent curatorial research and displays at The Museum of Modern Art in New York, this talk will consider the museum as a pedagogical space, where architectural knowledge is staged, debated, and re-learned. By attending to use, memory, and care, students are invited to reconsider design as an ongoing process — one that continues long after the building is built.

Evangelos Kotsioris is Assistant Curator in Architecture & Design at The Museum of Modern Art in New York. At MoMA he has recently organized the exhibitions The Many Lives of the Nakagin Capsule Tower (2025–26), Down to Earth (2025), Body Constructs (2024), and Architecture Now: New York, New Publics (2023). Kotsioris holds a professional degree in architecture from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Greece, an MArch II from Harvard University, and a PhD in history and theory of architecture from Princeton University. Among other places, he has taught theory and design at the University of Pennsylvania, Barnard+Columbia Architecture, Princeton School of Architecture, The Cooper Union, and Harvard GSD. He is the author of Kisho Kurokawa: Nakagin Capsule Tower (The Museum of Modern Art, 2025), and a co-editor of Radical Pedagogies, a global history of post-WWII experiments in architectural education during the second half of the twentieth century (MIT Press, 2022).