![]() Stierli has taught at various Swiss universities, including the universities of Zurich and Basel as well as ETH Zurich. His scholarship has been recognized with a number of prizes, among them the ETH Medal of Distinction for Outstanding Research (2008), the Theodor Fischer Prize by the Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte, Munich (2008), and the 2011 Swiss Art Award for Architectural Criticism. He is the leading organizer for the forthcoming exhibition, Toward a Concrete Utopia: Architecture in Yugoslavia, 1948–1980. ![]() Stierli oversees the wide-ranging program of special exhibitions, installations, and acquisitions of the Department of Architecture and Design. Martino Stierli is The Philip Johnson Chief Curator of Architecture and Design at The Museum of Modern Art, a role he assumed in March 2015. The unique range of forms, embodied identities, and modes of production in Yugoslav architecture cohere into a distinct architectural culture and invoke new introspection of the contemporary global cultural condition. The exhibition features more than 400 drawings, models, photographs, archival reproductions, and film reels culled from an array of municipal archives, family-held collections, and museums across the Balkan Peninsula. The exhibition introduces the exceptional built work of socialist Yugoslavia's leading architects to an international audience-among them, Bogdan Bogdanović, Edvard Ravnikar, Vjenceslav Richter, and Juraj Neidhardt. ![]() The Museum of Modern Art presents Toward a Concrete Utopia: Architecture in Yugoslavia, 1948–1980, the first major exhibition in the United States to examine the modernist architecture of the region. Photo: Valentin Jeck, commissioned by The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2017. Miodrag Živković, Monument to the Battle of Sutjeska, 1965-71, Tjentište, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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