Martino Stierli
former postdoc
Curriculum Vitae

2012- SNSF Professor for the History of Architecture and Art, Art History Institute, University of Zurich

2012 Fellow, The Gette Research Institute, Los Angeles

2011-2012 'Oberassistent' at the chair for the history of art and architecture, gta Institute (chair of Prof. Dr. Philip Ursprung)

2007−2011 Postdoctoral fellow in the framework of the National Centre of Compe-tence in Research (NCCR) „Iconic Criticism − The Power and Meaning of Images” (Eikones), University of Basel

2009 Fellow at the Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte, Munich, Germany

2008 Ph.D., Faculty of Architecture, ETH Zurich, with a thesis on „Put into Perspective. Aesthetics, Form and Discourse of the City in Venturi’s and Scott Brown’s Learning from Las Vegas” („Ins Bild gerückt. Ästhetik, Form und Diskurs der Stadt in Venturis und Scott Browns Learning from Las Vegas“)

2006−2007 Visiting Scholar, Department of the History of Art, University of Penn-sylvania, Philadelphia, and Department of Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University, New York

2003 M.A. in Art History, chair of Prof. Dr. Stanislaus von Moos, University of Zurich. Master’s thesis on „Rome in Mind. Robert Venturi, Rome and Postmodernism”

1995–2003 Studies in the history of art and architecture, German studies and comparative literature, University of Zurich

1991–1992 Foreign exchange student at Essex High School, Essex, Iowa


• Scholarships and Prizes

2011/12 Fellowship, The Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles

2011 Swiss Art Award, section art and architectural criticism and education

2011 Production and Presentation Grant der Graham Foundation, Chicago, for the translation and publication in English of "Las Vegas im Rückspiegel"

2008 Theodor Fischer Prize of the Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschichte, Munich, for Ph.D. thesis

2008 ETH Zurich medal of distinction for Ph.D. thesis

2007 Society of Architectural Historians (SAH) Annual Meeting International Fellowship

2006−2007 Ph.D. scholarship, Janggen-Pöhn Foundation, St. Gall, Switzerland

2005–2006 Ph.D. scholarship, Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF)

2003−2006 Various research travel grants, Erich Degen Foundation, Zurich, Swit-zerland

2003–2005 Ph.D. scholarship, postgraduate program „Urban Forms − Conditions and Consequences”, gta Institute, Department of Architecture, ETH Zürich


• Teaching Experience

2011- Lecturer, Institute of the History and Theory of Architecture, ETH Zurich

2010-11 Seminar „Architectural Criticism”, Faculty of Architecture, ETH Zurich, spring and fall semesters (with R. Geiser)

2009 Conceptual Design of the module „Image Borders and Sequences” for the second phase of the NCCR Iconic Criticism (Eikones), 2009–2013 (with Prof. Andreas Beyer)

2009 Seminar „The Street”, Institute for History and Theory of Architecture (gta), Faculty of Architecture, ETH Zurich, spring semester 2009

2008 Seminar „Postmodern Architecture in Theory and Practice,” Institute of Art History, University of Zurich, fall semester 2008

2007 Lecture „Architecture USA: People and Places”, Master of Arts in Architecture Program, University of Lucerne of Applied Sciences and Arts, fall semester 2007

1998–2000 Tutor at the chair of Prof. Dr. Stanislaus von Moos, Department of Art History, University of Zurich


• Conferences and Workshops

2010 Organization of the International Eikones Summer School 2010, "The Efficacy of Images", NCCR Iconic Criticism, University of Basel (with Prof. A. Schubbach)

2009 Organization of the International Conference „Between Architecture and Imagination”, Eikones, NCCR Iconic Criticism, 19–21 February 2009 (with Prof. A. Beyer and Prof. R. Simon)

2009 Organization of the panel discussion „Learning from Las Vegas – Yesterday and Today”, Museum im Bellpark, Kriens (with H. Stadler)

2008 Organization of the workshop „The Digital Image of Architecture,” Eikones, NCCR Iconic Criticism, 31 October 2008 (with R. Geiser)

2008 Organization of the workshop “Explorations – On Iconic Research in Architecture,” Eikones, NCCR Iconic Criticism, 29 November 2008


• Exhibitions

2008–2010 Las Vegas Studio: Images from the Archives von Robert Venturi und Denise Scott Brown, Museum im Bellpark, Kriens, Deutsches Architekturmuseum, Frankfurt, Yale University School of Architecture, and Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (with H. Stadler)

2006 HAETTENSCHWEILER. Schriften für die Welt, Logos für Zug, Kunsthaus Zug mobil and Museum für Gestaltung, Zurich (with DNS-Transport)

2001 Bahnhof adieu! Aspekte der spannenden Zuger Bahnhofsgeschichte, Zug train station (with M. van Orsouw)


• Boards

2010- Member of the Editorial Board, AA Files, Architectural Association School of Architecture, London

2010- Book Editor of the EAHN Newsletter (European Architectural History Network)

2010- Member of the Editorial Board, Zuger Neujahrsblatt, Gemeinnützige Gesellschaft des Kantons Zug

2008-2010 Correspondent of the EAHN Newsletter (European Architectural History Network)

2007- Founding member and editor of the online architectural journal www.archimaera.de


• Professional Experience

2009– Lecturer, Department of Architecture, ETH Zurich

2008– Lecturer, Institute of Art History, University of Zurich

2007 Lecturer, University of Lucerne of Applied Sciences and Arts

2003− Free-lance contributor to Neue Zürcher Zeitung (NZZ)

2001–2002 Editorial assistant of the exhibition catalog Herzog & de Meuron: Natural History, published by the Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal

1998–2001 Curatorial assistant, Stiftung für Eisenplastik, Sammlung Dr. Hans Koenig, Zollikon

1996–2002 Free-lance contributor to Neue Zuger Zeitung

Various activities as art and architectural critic.