Nott Caviezel

Nott Caviezel (* 1953 in Scuol ) is a Swiss art historian and university professor . Caviezel has been professor for “Preservation and Building in Existing Buildings” at the Vienna University of Technology since 2012 . Since 2009 he has also been President of the Federal Commission for the Preservation of Monuments .

education

Nott Caviezel was born in Scuol in the Lower Engadine in 1953 . He attended grammar school and completed the federal Matura type B at the canton school in Chur . From 1970 on, Caviezel dealt with building research and medieval archeology and completed additional training as an excavation manager as part of various building research and excavations in the cantons of Graubünden, Friborg, Vaud and Valais. At the same time, he completed a degree in general art and architectural history, contemporary art, medieval history, historical basic sciences and Christian archeology at the University of Freiburg from 1973 . In 1978 he obtained his licentiate as licenciatus philosophiæ , in 1989 he received his doctorate in philosophy (Dr. phil.) With a dissertation on the topic of Gothic hall churches and stair halls in Switzerland . Nott Caviezel graduated summa cum laude . In parallel to his main studies, Caviezel also pursued clarinet studies at the Freiburg Conservatory from 1976 to 1981 , where he achieved the certificate class.

Professional background

From 1978 on, Nott Caviezel was employed as a graduate assistant at the Chair of Art History at the University of Freiburg. In 1982/1983 he carried out architectural history studies in Piedmont and Franche-Comté , where he was able to conduct research at the Bibliotheca Hertziana in Rome with a grant from the Swiss National Fund for the Promotion of Scientific Research . From 1983 to 1986 he was subsequently co-program director of National Research Program 16, "Methods for the Conservation of Cultural Property". From 1985 to 1989 he also received a teaching position for architectural history and monument preservation at the Bern University of the Arts , where he worked in the conservation and restoration class.

From 1987 to 1995 Nott Caviezel was director of the Society for Swiss Art History , where he was among other things the editor and academic responsibility for the national art topography Die Kunstdenkmäler der Schweiz . In 1995/1996 Caviezel held a professorship in medieval art history at the University of Lausanne , and in 1997/1998 he worked on a research project on village fires in Graubünden 1800–1945 . In the following years he was a guest lecturer at the Historical Institute of the University of Bern and at the Bern University of Applied Sciences for Architecture, Wood and Construction in the post-graduate course “Monument Preservation and Urban Design” there.

In 2000/2001 he was employed by Caviezel as a research assistant at the Musée d'art et d'histoire Friborg for the conception of an exhibition and the creation of a monograph on the painter Hans Fries . In 2001/2002 he was a lecturer at the Institute for Art History at the University of Bern in the “Architectural History and Monument Preservation” department. From 2002 to 2011 Nott Caviezel was editor-in-chief of the Swiss trade journal for architecture and urban development Werk, Bauen + Wohnen . He has been a member of the Federal Commission for the Preservation of Monuments since 2005 and its President since 2009.

In 2012, Nott Caviezel was appointed to succeed Manfred Wehdorn at the Technical University of Vienna , where he took on the chair of “Monument Preservation and Existing Building” as a full university professor.

Web links

• Curriculum vitae by Nott Caviezel as part of the website of the Chair for “Preservation of Monuments and Existing Building” at the TU Vienna .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Nott Caviezel is the new President of the Federal Commission for the Preservation of Monuments (EKD) . Announcement of the Swiss Federal Office for Culture of March 17, 2009, accessed on January 21, 2016.