Karl Moser
Architect
1860 – 1936
Who was Karl Moser?
Karl Moser was an architect from Switzerland.
Between 1887 and 1915 he worked together with Robert Curjel in Karlsruhe. Some of their works are:
Kunsthaus Zurich
University of Zurich
Basel Badischer Bahnhof
St. Paul's Church, Bern
St. Anthony's, Basel
several Protestant churches
From 1915 to 1928 he was professor at ETH Zurich.
In 1928 he was president of the newly founded Congrès International d'Architecture Moderne, an organisation, steered prominently by the pioneers of modernism, architects Le Corbusier and Walter Gropius, which championed rational and functionalist architecture, while critiquing the type of revivalist architecture typified by Moser's own work. Indeed, at was at this time that Moser's own work changed radically towards modernism, exemplified in the St. Anthony's in Basel, built in reinforced concrete rather than brick and stone typical for his earlier works.
His son Werner M. Moser also became a noted architect.
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