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Ákos Moravánszky
Ákos Moravánszky has been Professor of the Theory of Architecture (Titularprofessor) at the Institut gta (Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture) of ETH Zurich since June 2005.
Born in 1950 in Székesfehérvár, Hungary, Ákos Moravánszky studied architecture at the Technical University in Budapest, Hungary, between 1969 and 1974 and then worked as an architectural designer in Budapest. From 1977 on he studied art history and historic preservation with a Heder scholarship at the Technical University in Vienna, Austria, where he received his doctorate in 1980. Between 1983 and 1986, he was Editor-in-Chief of the magazine of the Hungarian Union of Architects, "Magyar Épitömüvészet". From 1986 until 1988 he was a Research Fellow at the Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte in Munich, Germany, with an Alexander-von-Humboldt-Scholarship. Between 1989 and 1991 he was invited to the Getty Center for History of Art and the Humanities in Santa Monica, California as a Research Associate. From 1991 until 1996 he was appointed Visiting Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Massachusetts). In 1996 he was invited to teach the Theory of Architecture at the Institute gta of the ETH Zurich. During the academic term 2003/2004 he was appointed Visiting Professor at the University of Applied Art in Budapest, Hungary as a Szent-Györgyi Fellow.
Ákos Moravánszky is editor of the book series TheorieBau at Quart Publishers in Lucerne. He is President of the editorial board of the Swiss architectural journal Werk, Bauen+Wohnen and serves on the editorial board of the journal tec21. He is advisor to the Getty Grant Program (Getty Center, Los Angeles) and to the Fonds for the Support of Scientific Research, Austria.
The main areas of research and publication activities of Ákos Moravánszky are the history of East and Middle European architecture in the 19th-20th centuries, the history of architectural theory, and the iconology of building materials and constructions.