Sotirios Kotoulas is the founder of Sotirios Corp, an architecture research and design studio based in North America with projects around the world. Sotirios received his professional degree in architecture at The Cooper Union in New York City, and studied history and theory of architecture with Alberto Pérez-Gómez at McGill University, Montreal. His book titled Space Out, published by Springer-Verlag, and edited by Lebbeus Woods,explores the spatial and material dimension of invisible and immeasurable electromagnetic phenomena.

Recently, Sotirios completed a structural masonry mixed use apartment building, Sherbrook Flats, in downtown Winnipeg, Canada, that is being researched with engineer John Wells for its dynamic thermal resistance. A house for artist Katherine Bernhardt is under construction in old San Juan, Puerto Rico. Sotirios’ latest projects include designing the Kaari Upson exhibition and bookstore at the Deste Foundation in Athens, Greece and renovating the existing structure on an 84 acre property near Ojai California for Kyle DeWoody. Sotirios designed and built artist studios for Garth Weiser and Francesca DiMattio in upstate New York and shortly thereafter executed exhibition design for Garth Weiser Paintings: 2008 – 2017 at The Contemporary Austin in Austin, Texas. Sotirios designed a house for Max Snow on the Snake River in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, and an artist studio for Mickalene Thomas in New York City, as well as a pool pavilion and pool house in Connecticut. Sotirios worked with the late Elder and Knowledge Keeper Dr. Dave Courchene, Nii Gaani Aki Innini (Leading Earth Man) of the Anishinaabe Nation, on a new architectural space for ceremony, ritual, and education at an ancient sacred site in Manitoba. Sotirios and artist Jamie Diamond collaborated on a Chase Manhattan Bank branch for Albuquerque, New Mexico. This project was exhibited in 2024 at the Prada Foundation’s Monte di Pietà exhibition in Venice, Italy. An exhibition catalogue is now available.

Working with his family’s construction and restoration company, Alpha Masonry, Sotirios oversees and manages new masonry construction and recent historic restoration projects for Parks Canada, Judd Foundation, and the Sun Tower in downtown Vancouver for Allied Reit. The Sun Tower heritage conservation and seismic stabilization project recently won the outstanding achievement award from the City of Vancouver. He is currently involved with the restoration of the Manitoba Legislative Building. Sotirios specializes in the complete rehabilitation and preservation of modern architecture at various scales. Sotirios teaches architecture at various universities in Canada and the United States.

Sotirios was a research consultant at the Cooper Union Institute for Sustainable Design in New York City for the Lessons from Modernism exhibition that studied sustainable details and concepts in early modern architecture. This exhibition traveled across the United States. The book, Lessons from Modernism, Environmental Design Strategies in Architecture 1925-1970, is published by Monacelli Press.

Sotirios currently serves as the board chair of Anthology Film Archives in New York City. He is also a board member of the International Peace Garden board. He recently completed a full nine-year board term at the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra, as well as the full nine-year term as board president of Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art in Winnipeg, Canada. Additionally, he served for a decade as board chair of Basilica Hudson in Hudson, New York.

Sotirios exhibited a new body of work titled Star Stories in the exhibition, Conceiving the Plan: Nuance and Intimacy in the Construction of Civic Space, at the 2021 Venice Biennale of Architecture, Italian Pavilion, curated by Yael Hameiri Sainsaux and Alessandro Melis. The exhibition is on tour, and the book is published by Skira and is available worldwide.

Sotirios was the Artist-In-Residence during the winter 2023 term, at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire.