Stanislaus von Moos

Stanislaus von Moos ( born July 23, 1940 in Lucerne ) is a Swiss art historian and theoretician of architecture.

Work

After a year of moss studied architecture art history at Sigfried Giedion. After first teaching assignments at Harvard, Bern and New York, he received a professorship at the Technical University of Delft in 1983 and eventually appointed to the newly created Chair of Modern and Contemporary Art in Zurich, where he taught until his retirement in 2005. After that, he has lectured in Mendrisio and currently at Yale. In 1997 he was Visiting Professor Jean Labatut in Princeton.

In 1968 he published Le Corbusier - Elements of a synthesis, a later translated into English standard work on the city planner, and painter. In 1971 he founded together with Hans Reinhard even today the existing journal ' Archithese '. Other works he published the American architect Robert Venturi, the State Exhibition 1939 and the Expo 02 in 2004, he published Not Disneyland, a collection of essays on Swiss architecture and art in the 20th century.

Stanislaus von Moos ' uncle was the Lucerne painter Max von Moos. His wife was the sculptress Irene von Moos.