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 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 Ph.D. 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.