Green Over Gray: Emilio Ambasz

September 16, 2025

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5:30 PM - 9:00 PM

Center for Architecture + Design

Green Over Gray explores the visionary work of architect Emilio Ambasz, whose projects redefined the relationship between architecture, nature, and climate responsibility. Through striking visuals, archival drawings, and contemporary interviews with leading architects like Tadao Ando and Kengo Kuma, the film examines how architecture can shape human well-being, urban environments, and our collective impact on the planet.

This documentary offers an inspiring look at how design can nurture both ecosystems and emotions and showing that architecture’s role extends far beyond technique.

Click HERE to watch the trailer.

Photo Credits – Muse Factory of Projects

Schedule
5:30-6:15 Doors Open/Opening Reception
6:15-6:20 Introduction
6:20-7:50 Film Screening
7:50-8:30 Conversation
8:30-9:00 Closing Reception
 
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Speakers

Joseph Becker - SFMOMA Curator

Joseph Becker is a curator, writer, and educator based in San Francisco, where he serves as Curator of Architecture and Design at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Recent exhibitions include Art of Noise (2024), Barbara Stauffacher Solomon: Strips of Stripes (2023), Marshall Brown Projects: Dequindre Civic Academy (2023), Tauba Auerbach: S v Z (2022), The Sea Ranch: Architecture, Environment, and Idealism (2018–19), Donald Judd: Specific Furniture (2018), and Tomás Saraceno: Stillness in Motion – Cloud Cities (2017). His publications include Tauba Auerbach: S v Z (SFMOMA/D.A.P., 2020), The Sea Ranch (Del Monico/Prestel, 2018), and essays in Making Home (Cooper Hewitt/MIT, 2025), The Craft of Place: Mork-Ulnes Architects (Park Books, 2024), Exquisite Experiments: The Early Work of Lebbeus Woods (Wiley, 2024), among others. His work explores the intersections of architecture, design, art, and visual culture, with a focus on exhibition-making as a form of critical spatial practice.

Richard Neill - Moderator

Richard Neill is a photographer, filmmaker, and curator of the 2025 CA+D Film Series. As the founding director of Adventure Pictures, his work is focused on architecture, design and climate adaptation for a wide range of clients that include JCFO, the National Building Museum, and The Nature Conservancy. A former Board member of CA+D, he has curated and produced many Center programs on climate resiliency, sustainability, and indigenous architecture.
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