Emerging Ecologies: Architecture and the Rise of Environmentalism
Carson Chan and Matthew Wagstaffe
The exhibition and the accompanying publication will be the first comprehensive study of the history of environmental thinking in architecture at any major institution globally. During the 1960s, as Western notions of endless progress and growth gave way to concerns over industrial pollution, resource depletion, and ecological limits,
Carson Chan is the inaugural Director of the Emilio Ambasz Institute for the Joint Study of the Built and Natural Environment at The Museum of Modern Art, and a Curator in the Museum’s Department of Architecture and Design.
Matthew Wagstaffe is a Research Assistant at the Emilio Ambasz Institute for the Joint Study of the Built and Natural Environment at MoMA.