Hans Buchwald

Hans Buchwald (* 1933 in Vienna ; † October 31, 2013 there ) was an American art historian and architect .

Buchwald and his family had to emigrate to the USA in 1940 and in 1947 they took on the US citizenship. From 1951 he studied architecture at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh (1956 BA ). Since 1956 he studied art history (among others with Karl Maria Swoboda ) in addition to working in an architecture office at the University of Vienna and received his doctorate there in 1962 with Otto Demus with a thesis on the architectural sculpture of San Marco in Venice . From 1964 to 1972 he taught at the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts at Harvard University , from 1978 to 2000 as professor for architectural design and architectural theory at the University of Stuttgart . At the same time, Buchwald had been working as a practical architect since 1954, in Stuttgart since 1970 , and from 1985 to 2000 with his own office “CDE Prof. Buchwald GmbH. Consulting - Design - Engineering ”.

Buchwald's main research area was the history of Byzantine architecture . For a long time he took part in the American excavations in Sardis .

Publications (selection)

Form from process - the Thonet chair. An exhibition of historic bentwood furniture from the collection of John Sailer, Vienna. Cambridge, Mass. 1967.
The Church of the Archangels in Sige near Mudania. Böhlau, Vienna 1969.
Form, style, and meaning in Byzantine church architecture. Ashgate, Aldershot 1999, ISBN 0-86078-779-6 (collected articles).

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SURNAME	Buchwald, Hans
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Buchwald, Hans Herbert (full name); Buchwald, Hans H.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American art historian and architect
DATE OF BIRTH	1933
PLACE OF BIRTH	Vienna
DATE OF DEATH	October 31, 2013
Place of death	Vienna