Martino Stierli 

is The Philip Johnson Chief Curator of Architecture and Design at The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York where he has overseen the special exhibitions, installations, and acquisitions of the Department of Architecture and Design. Previous to joining MoMA, he was the Swiss National Science Foundation Professor at the University of Zurich's Institute of Art History. He has taught at Columbia University and Princeton University, the universities of Zurich and Basel, and ETH Zurich, from where he holds a PhD. His widely-published research on architecture and media has focused on the work of practices including Venturi Scott Brown, Herzog & de Meuron, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Rem Koolhaas, Johnston Marklee, and Ed Ruscha. Stierli has also co-curated landmark exhibitions including Toward a Concrete Utopia: Architecture in Yugoslavia, 1948-1980 for MoMA (2018), The Architecture of Hedonism: Three Villas in the Island of Capri for the Venice Architecture Biennale (2014), and the international traveling exhibition Las Vegas Studio: Images from the Archives of Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown (2008-14). His books include: Montage and the Metropolis: Architecture, Modernity, and the Representation of Space (2018) and Las Vegas in the Rearview Mirror: The City in Theory, Photography, and Film (2010).