Theodossis (Theo) Issaias
Theodossis Issaias (he/him) is an architect and educator. He serves as Curator of the Heinz Architectural Center at the Carnegie Museum of Art and Special Faculty & Professor of Practice at Carnegie Mellon Architecture. He has organized exhibitions including Zoe Zenghelis: Fields, Fragments, Fictions; Unsettling Matter, Gaining Ground; Everlasting Plastics; and after school. From 2017 to 2018, he was a Museum Research Consortium Fellow at the Museum of Modern Art, where he contributed to Toward a Concrete Utopia: Architecture in Yugoslavia, 1948–1980.
He is co-founder of FATURA Collaborative, an architecture and research collective whose work has been presented internationally, including at the Venice Biennale of Architecture, the Benaki Museum, and the Acropolis Museum, among other venues. He has practiced architecture in the United States and Belgium and is a registered architect in Greece.
He studied architecture in Athens and holds a Master of Science in Architecture and Urbanism from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a PhD from the Yale School of Architecture. His doctoral dissertation, Architectures of the Humanitarian Front (2021), examined the relationship between modern architecture, displacement, and the provision of shelter.
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
Heinz Architectural Center | Carnegie Museum of Art
Fall 2025 Teaching
This course is organized as a graduate seminar that concludes the cycle of required courses in the history and theory of architecture for the M.Arch program.
Spring 2025 Teaching
The course is organized as a research-by-design seminar that charts environmental uncertainty and contends with the role of spatial practices in territorial and ecological transformations. Central to our attention is the region of western Pennsylvania, its rivers, forests, fracklands, cities and its associated social, political, cultural and material geographies.