Stanislaus von Moos

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Stanislaus von Moos
Born	(1940-07-23) 23 July 1940 Lucerne, Switzerland
Occupation	Historian

Stanislaus von Moos (Born 23 July 1940) is a Swiss art historian and architectural theorist.^[1]

Early life

Stanislaus von Moos was born in Lucerne, Switzerland.

Career

After a year of architectural studies of moss art history at Sigfried Giedion . After first teaching assignments in Harvard, Bern and New York, he became a professor at the Delft University of Technology in 1983, finally to the newly created Department of Modern and Contemporary Art in Zurich Sciences, where he taught until his retirement in the 2005th He then in Mendrisio, and currently teaches at Yale.

In 1971 he founded the still existing magazine " Archithese " . Since 1997 he was Visiting Professor Jean Labatut in Princeton.

Personal life

Stanislaus von Moos is married to sculptor of Irene Moss. His uncle was the Lucerne painter Max von Moos.

Bibliography

Le Corbusier - elements of a synthesis, (1968)
The American architect Robert Venturi
Published essay collection on Swiss architecture and art in the 20th Century

References

↑ http://www.architecture.yale.edu/drupal/node/549

Persondata
Name	Moos, Stanislaus von
Alternative names
Short description	Swiss historian
Date of birth	23 July 1940
Place of birth	Lucerne, Switzerland
Date of death
Place of death

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