Background
Moltke, Wilhelm Viggo von was born on May 8, 1911 in Kreisau, Silesia, Germany. Came to United States, 1940, naturalized, 1944. Son of Count Helmuth Adolf and Dorothy (Rose-Innes) von Moltke.
Moltke, Wilhelm Viggo von was born on May 8, 1911 in Kreisau, Silesia, Germany. Came to United States, 1940, naturalized, 1944. Son of Count Helmuth Adolf and Dorothy (Rose-Innes) von Moltke.
Diplom-Ingenieur Architect magna cum laude, Technische Hochschule, Berlin, 1937. Master in Architecture, Harvard University, 1942.
Employed in architectural offices, England, 1937-1938, Stockholm, Sweden, 1938-1940. With Marcel Breuer (architect), New York City, 1948. Designer Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (architects), 1948-1949.
Senior designer Eero Saarinen & Associates, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, 1949-1953. Chief designer Philadelphia City Planning Commission, 1953-1961. Director urban design Guayana project Joint Center for Urban Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University, 1961-1964.
Professor urban design, director urban design program Graduate School Design, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1964-1977, professor emeritus, since 1977. Commissioner for education and research Boston Society Architects, 1976-1978. Member faculty Salzburg (Austria) Seminar in American Studies, 1972.
Urban design consultant to, Quito, Ecuador, Managua, Nicaragua and Istanbul, Turkey, 1973-1976, Ministry Community Development, Development, Saudi Arabia, 1979. Advisory University Autonoma Metropolitana, Mexico City, 1979. Scholar in residence Centre Human Settlements, University British Columbia, 1979.
Visiting professor department architecture École Polytechnique Fédérale, Lausanne, Switzerland, 1979. Visiting lecturer, critic School Architecture, University Cape Town, South Africa, 1981. Speaker symposia honoring Walter Gropius, Berlin and Rome, 1983.
Member Kuratorium Bauhaus Archiv of Berlin, since 1983. Visiting professor department architecture and urban design Technology University Berlin, 1984, 85.
Board directors Boston Architectural Center. Trustee LeCorbusier Foundation of Zurich, since 1981. Served to 1st lieutenant United States Army, 1943-1946.
Fellow American Institute of Architects. Member American Institute Planners (certified), Boston Society Architects (director 1971-1974), Bayerische Akademie der Schönen Künste (honorary correspondent), Deutsche Akademie für Städtebau und Landesplanung (honorary correspondent).
Married Veronica Maria Jochum, November 15, 1961.