The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York has named Martino Stierli its new Philip Johnson Chief Curator of Architecture and Design. Stierli, who currently teaches the history of  modern architecture at the University of Zurich, will begin at MoMA in March 2015. His duties will include overseeing the Department of Architecture and Design’s special exhibitions, installations from the collection, and acquisitions. Stierli succeeds Barry Bergdoll, who stepped down in 2013. Now a professor of art history and archaeology at Columbia University, Bergdoll continues to be a part-time curator at MoMA. 

Stierli’s scholarly research has focused on a range of topics, including architecture and media, the photographic and cinematic portrayal of architecture, the intersection of art and architecture, the transatlantic exchange in postwar and postmodern architecture, and the role of travel in architectural education.