Carson Chan is the inaugural Director of the Emilio Ambasz Institute for the Joint Study of the Built and Natural Environment and a Curator in the MoMA’s Department of Architecture and Design. In 2006, he cofounded PROGRAM, a project space and residency program in Berlin and is a founding editor of Current: Collective for Architecture History and Environment. His doctoral research at Princeton University tracks the architecture of public aquariums in the postwar United States against the rise of environmentalism as a social and intellectual movement.