Eric Owen Moss

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Eric Owen Moss (b. 1943 in Los Angeles, California) is a widely recognized Los Angeles based architect.

Eric Owen Moss was born and raised in Los Angeles, California. He received a Bachelor of Arts from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1965. Moss continued his education, earning his Masters of Architecture from the University of California, Berkeley, College of Environmental Design in 1968 and a second Masters of Architecture from Harvard University Graduate School of Design in 1972.

Through the years Eric Owen Moss has worked extensively to revitalize a once defunct industrial tract in Culver City, California. The introduction of vibrant designs that challenge the boundaries of technology and foster creativity have successfully created jobs and community morale through the development of the project known as Conjunctive Points. His efforts have gained recognition locally, nationally and internationally. In 2003 Eric Owen Moss was awarded the Business Week/Architectural Record Award for the design and construction of the Stealth. This award applauds uniting excellence in business as well as design. Eric Owen Moss designs have consistently gained recognition for innovative building techniques, community development and job creation, as well as excellence in design.

Eric Owen Moss received the AIA/LA Medal in 1998 for the achievement of an outstanding body of architectural works. He is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects and was a recipient of the Distinguished Alumni Award for the University of California at Berkeley in 2003. He is director of the Southern California Institute of Architecture.

[edit] External links

• Interview with Eric Owen Moss at Archinect.com
• A selective bibliography on Eric Owen Moss
• Interview to Eric Owen Moss by Leon Whiteson
• Interview to Enrique Norten (TEN Arquitectos), Eric Owen Moss (Eric Owen Moss Architects), James Corner (Field Operations): "To Build a Fence"
• ARCH'IT article "To the Ice Sculptors"
• ARCH'IT article on Mariinsky Cultural Center/New Holland
• ARCH'IT article on Mariinsky Cultural Center/New Mariinsky Theater
• Eric Owen Moss Architects homepage

[edit] Selected Bibliography

• Paola Giaconia, Eric Owen Moss. The Uncertainty of Doing, Skira, Milan 2006.
• Eric Owen Moss. Buildings and Projects 3, Rizzoli, New York 2002.
• Eric Owen Moss, Gnostic Architecture, Monacelli, New York 1999.
• Preston Scott Cohen, Brooke Hodge (eds.), Eric Owen Moss. The Box, Princeton Architectural Press, New York 1996.
• Eric Owen Moss. Buildings and Projects 2, Rizzoli, New York 1995.
• James Steele, Lawson-Westen House (Architecture in Detail), Phaidon Press, London 1995.
• Eric Owen Moss. Architectural monographs, n. 29, Academy Editions, London 1993.
• Eric Owen Moss. Buildings and Projects, Rizzoli, New York 1991.