Charlotte Von Moos

Charlotte von Moos is a practicing architect and researcher. Together with Florian Sauter, von Moos is the cofounder of the architectural practice Sauter von Moos based in Basel, Switzerland and Miami. The studio engages in work on all scales, both in theory and practice.

Von Moos holds a master’s degree from the Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, where she taught for many years at the ETH Studio Basel Institute for the Contemporary City, together with Herzog & de Meuron. Von Moos was a visiting professor at the Technical University of Munich and workshop leader at Porto Academy, held at the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Porto. Since 2018, she is Assistant Professor at the University of Miami School of Architecture.

Academic Research / Specialty Areas

• Adaptive reuse
• Architectural design
• Architectural practice
• Architectural theory
• Collaborative practice
• Construction
• Historic preservation planning
• Housing
• Installation art
• Sustainability
• Urban Design

Awards, Grants, and Fellowships (Selected)

• Prix Lignum (2015)
• Swiss Architecture Award (2015)
• Moira Gemmill Prize for Emerging Architecture (2018, Shortlisted)

Exhibitions and Presentations (Selected)

• Readymades Belong to Everyone,Swiss Institute, New York City (2018)
• Make New History,Chicago Architecture Biennial (2017)
• Book for Architects,gta Exhibitions, ETH Zurich (2015)

Publications (Selected)

• Achtung: die Landschaft (Zurich, 2015)
• In Miami in the 1980s (upcoming)