Karl Moser

Charles Celestine Moser ( born August 10, 1860 in Baden, † February 28, 1936 in Zurich ) was a Swiss architect, who is also in a shared office with Robert Curjel worked from 1888 to 1915 in Karlsruhe and from 1915 worked as an influential high school teacher in Zurich.

Born as the son of the architect Robert Moser, Karl Moser studied from 1878 to 1882 architecture at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich. After studying in Paris he met during a job in Wiesbaden architect Robert Curjel, with whom he 1888 the architectural firm Curjel and Moser in Karlsruhe opened; at times they also maintained a branch office in Basel. Curjel and Moser won soon in the field of church architecture attention. But your success is also reflected in the various representative construction tasks with which they were entrusted. The cooperation both finished after the outbreak of the First World War. After the completion of the University Building in 1914 Moser got an honorary doctorate from the University of Zurich awarded. The shared office with Curjel ended in 1915, then continued his work solely responsible Moser continued, while his former partner from 1916 worked for the Badische Baubund.

On October 1, 1915 Moser was appointed full professor of architecture at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich and added 13 years later on October 1, 1928 in retirement. As a university teacher, he influenced many later known architects, including Max Ernst Haefeli, Rudolf Steiger and his son Werner Max Moser, who later joined forces for architects HMS.

Karl Moser was the founding President of the Congrès International d' Architecture Moderne. Some of his buildings in Switzerland and Karlsruhe let Karl Moser from his close friend, the sculptor Oskar Kiefer SHapINg. His legacy is preserved in the archives of the Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture (GTA ) at ETH Zurich. He was buried in the cemetery Fluntern.

Buildings and designs

1888-1915 ( Office Curjel and Moser )

(see also List of Works in the article Robert Curjel )

After 1915