Architect, Argentina and United States Emilio Ambasz is an Argentinia-born architect and designer whose international design and architectural projects have made him a significant contributor to the history of contextualized modernism in 20th-century architecture. After completing military obligations, Ambasz applied to universities in the United States and (with the recommendation of Williams) entered Princeton University under a Palmer Fellowship to the School of Architecture as a freshman in 1963, placed in the junior-year design studio his first semester, and switched to the first-year graduate program his second semester. He completed his studies as a graduate student, receiving his professional degree (a Master of Fine Arts) in two years, having been waived from the undergraduate curriculum, and joined the faculty in 1966. Appointed as a lecturer, Ambasz was promoted to assistant professor during 1966–69. In 1968 Princeton awarded him the Philip Freneau (Class of 1771, Poet of th...