Eric Owen Moss: The Latest and the Latest

03.18.09 | W. M. Keck Lecture Hall l 7pm Eric Owen Moss holds Masters degrees in Architecture from both Harvard University and the University of California at Berkeley. Eric Owen Moss Architects was founded in 1973. The office, located in Los Angeles, California, is currently staffed with twenty-five professionals designing and constructing projects in the United States and around the world. The firm has garnered over sixty design awards from Progressive Architecture magazine and the American Institute of Architects (AIA). In 1999, Moss won the Academy Award in Architecture from the American Academy of Arts and Letters; in 2001 the firm won the LAAIA Gold Medal for Design; and in 2003, Moss won the Gold Medal Distinguished Alumni Award from the University of California at Berkeley. There are ten published monographs on the Moss office, including three by Rizzoli and one, Gnostic Architecture by Monacelli Press. Most recent is Eric Owen Moss—The Uncertainty of Doing, published by Skira in 2006. Moss continues to build, teach, lecture and exhibit. In 2002, the firm won two competitions in St. Petersburg, Russia, one for the New Mariinsky Theatre, the second for the redevelopment of New Holland. In 2003, Eric Owen Moss Architects won the international competition for the Queens Museum of Art in New York. In 2006, they won the Future Cities competition—LA, NY, Chicago —sponsored by the History Channel. The firm has featured regularly at the Venice Biennale, with exhibits that have included the controversial proposal for the New Mariinsky at the Russian Pavilion in 2002, and the international competition entries for the National Library in Mexico City and the Smithsonian Institute in 2004. In 2006, the firm exhibited the Los Angeles/Culver City project in the Cities, Architecture, and Society section. Eric Owen Moss first taught at SCI-Arc in 1974, and was appointed director in 2002. He has held chairs at Yale and Harvard universities, and appointments at the Technische Hochschule in Vienna and the Royal Academy in Cohenhagen. SCI-Arc Lectures