Since Emilio Ambasz touched down in the United States nearly 60 years ago, prodigiousness—and perhaps a Midas touch—has defined his far-reaching career. The Argentinian-born designer and curator says he blasted through Princeton’s undergraduate and graduate architecture programs in just two years. In 1968, at the tender age of 25, he became a design curator at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), mounting landmark exhibitions such as 1972’s Italy: The New Domestic Landscape.
Ambasz’s ambitions didn’t end there. Though he went on to design everything from an ergonomic chair to a gum-massaging toothbrush, he is best regarded as a godfather of green architecture, blurring the boundary between garden and building through projects like the ACROS Fukuoka Prefectural International Hall in Japan, and the Lucile Halsell Conservatory in San Antonio.
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