werner max moser
1896 – 1970
Architect and furniture designer in Zurich. Studied at the architecture faculty at ETH Zurich. Internships with Grandpré-Molière in Rotterdam and Frank Lloyd Wright in the USA. Initial furniture designs for his father Karl Moser's practice. Co-founder of Wohnbedarf AG (1931) and of the architectural firm Haefeli, Moser, Steiger (HMS) (1937). From 1958, professor of architecture at ETH Zurich and doctor honoris causa at the Hochschule für Technik Stuttgart.