Stanislaus Von Moos

Stanislaus von Moos is emeritus professor of the History of Modern Art at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. He has taught at a number of American and European universities, including Harvard University, the Technische Hogeschool in Delft, the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, and Princeton University, where he was the Jean Labatut Visiting Professor of Architecture in 1997. After spending some time at the Department of Architecture at the ETH, Zurich, and getting his Ph.D. from Zurich University, he was for ten years editor of the influential architectural quarterly Archithese, which he founded in 1970. Parallel to his work on Italian Renaissance architecture, the history of industrial design, and of modern architecture, Von Moos has organized and co-organized various exhibitions on art and architecture, and in particular on the work of Le Corbusier and Venturi, Scott Brown & Associates. He wrote books on Le Corbusier, Renaissance architecture and 20th century design history. His current projects involve architecture and politics in Europe around 1950, and more generally the interactions of the visual arts and architecture in the XXth century. He is currently the Vincent Scully Visiting Professor of Architectural History at the Yale University.