Eric Owen Moss
| Eric Owen Moss | |
|---|---|
| Born |
July 25, 1943 Los Angeles, California, United States |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | UCLA, UC Berkeley, Harvard University |
| Occupation | Architect |
| Awards | Austrian Decoration for Science and Art |
| Website | ericowenmoss |
| Practice | Eric Owen Moss Architects (EOMA) |
Eric Owen Moss (born 1943 in Los Angeles (LA), California) practices architecture with his eponymously named LA-based 25-person firm founded in 1973.
Throughout his career Moss has worked to revitalize a once defunct industrial tract in Culver City, California.
Moss was born in Los Angeles, California in 1943. He received a Bachelor of Arts from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1965, his Masters of Architecture from the University of California, Berkeley, College of Environmental Design in 1968 and a second Masters of Architecture from Harvard University Graduate School of Design in 1972. Moss taught at Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc) in 1974 and was appointed director in 2002. He has held chairs at Yale and Harvard universities, and appointments at the University of Applied Arts Vienna and the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen.
Moss received an Academy Award in Architecture from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1999. He was awarded the 2001 AIA/LA Gold Medal for his architectural work as well as the Business Week/Architectural Record Award in 2003 for the design and construction of the Stealth project, Culver City, California. He is a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects and received the Distinguished Alumni Award for the University of California at Berkeley in 2003. Moss received the 2007 Arnold Brunner Memorial Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In 2011, he was awarded the Jencks Award, given each year to an architect who has made a major contribution to theory and practice of architecture by the Royal Institute of British Architects. In 2016, Moss was awarded the Austrian Decoration for Science and Art.
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