Sotirios Kotoulas
Design Critic in Architecture
Sotirios Kotoulas is the founder of Sotirios Corp, an architecture and design studio based in North America with projects realized internationally. He received his professional degree in architecture from The Cooper Union in New York City and completed his Master of Architecture at McGill University in Montreal, where he studied the history and theory of architecture with Alberto Pérez-Gómez. His book Space Out, published by Springer-Verlag and edited by Lebbeus Woods, explores the spatial and material dimensions of invisible and immeasurable electromagnetic phenomena.
His recent work spans residential, cultural, and experimental research projects across North America and Europe. He recently completed Sherbrook Flats, a structural masonry mixed-use building in downtown Winnipeg, and is currently constructing a residence for artist Katherine Bernhardt in Old San Juan, Puerto Rico. Cultural projects include exhibition and architectural work for the DESTE Foundation in Athens and The Contemporary Austin, alongside the design and construction of artist studios in upstate New York. Additional projects include residential and studio commissions throughout the United States, as well as a ceremonial and educational space developed in collaboration with the late Anishinaabe Elder and Knowledge Keeper Dr. Dave Courchene at an ancient sacred site in Manitoba. Most recently, he collaborated with artist Jamie Diamond on a conceptual project presented in the exhibition Monte di Pietà at the Prada Foundation in Venice in 2024.
Working with his family’s construction and restoration firm, Alpha Masonry, Sotirios oversees new masonry construction and major heritage restoration projects across Canada and the United States. His work includes significant projects for Parks Canada, the Judd Foundation, and the rehabilitation of the Sun Tower in Vancouver for Allied REIT, which received the City of Vancouver Outstanding Achievement Award. He is currently involved in the restoration of the Manitoba Legislative Building and the Wehwehneh Bahgahkinahgohn project for the Southern Chiefs’ Organization, and recently completed the restoration of the Donald Judd Architecture Office Building in Marfa, Texas, dedicated in 2025.
Sotirios served as a research consultant at the Cooper Union Institute for Sustainable Design for Lessons from Modernism, an exhibition examining environmental strategies in early modern architecture that traveled across the United States. The accompanying book, Lessons from Modernism: Environmental Design Strategies in Architecture 1925–1970, was published by Monacelli Press.
Sotirios serves as Board Chair of Anthology Film Archives in New York City and is a board member of the International Peace Garden. He has taught architecture at universities across the United States and Canada. His work has been exhibited internationally, including Star Stories at the Venice Biennale of Architecture (Italian Pavilion, 2021), accompanied by a publication by Skira titled Conceiving the Plan: Nuance and Intimacy in Civic Space. He was the Artist-in-Residence at Dartmouth College in 2023 and serves a diplomatic role as Honorary Consul of Greece for the Province of Manitoba, Canada.