Theodossis Issaias (he/him) is an architect, curator, and Professor of Practice at Carnegie Mellon University School of Architecture. He serves as Curator of the Heinz Architectural Center at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh.
Across exhibitions, publications, and field-based research, Issaias investigates how architecture operates within territorial, ecological, and political systems. His curatorial work engages infrastructures of education, postindustrial landscapes, environmental transformation, and the spatial afterlives of modernism. At the Carnegie Museum of Art, he has organized exhibitions including Fields, Fragments, Fictions; Unsettling Matter, Gaining Ground; and after school, a research-driven exhibition and book examining public education, austerity, and spatial justice in the United States.
He is co-founder of FATURA Collaborative, an architecture and research collective working across rural territories, settlement histories, and environmental change. The collective’s projects have been presented at the Venice Biennale of Architecture, the Benaki Museum and Acropolis Museum in Athens, and Artists in Context, among others. Issaias has also practiced in the United States, Belgium, and Greece, collaborating with architectural offices and community-based organisations.
From 2017 to 2018, he was a Museum Research Consortium Fellow at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, contributing to Toward a Concrete Utopia: Architecture in Yugoslavia, 1948–1980. He studied architecture in Athens and holds graduate degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a PhD from Yale University. His dissertation examined the entanglement of modern architecture with conflict, displacement, and the governance of shelter.
