Werner M. Moser practised at a period when the terms of architecture itself were under argument.
The record lists Werner M. Moser as Swiss architect (1896-1970).
Werner M. Moser was born at Karlsruhe in 1896. His recorded nationality is Switzerland. He trained at ETH Zurich and Technical University of Stuttgart.
Modernism rejected ornament and historical style, arguing that a building should express its structure and its function - a claim contested ever since.
He is recorded as architect and university teacher.
Buildings outlast their architects and usually their purposes, which is what makes the discipline unforgiving.
Recognition followed: honorary doctor of the University of Stuttgart.
That the work was built in Switzerland shaped it: climate, materials, planning law and who holds the budget all decide what can actually be built.
Werner M. Moser died in 1970, aged 74. The buildings remain, still in use by people who never knew the name - which is the particular afterlife architecture offers.
Achievements
- honorary doctor of the University of Stuttgart
- Trained at ETH Zurich and Technical University of Stuttgart
