Henri Stierlin


Henri Stierlin is a Swiss journalist and writer of popular works on art and architectural history.

Education

Stierlin studied Classics with Law at the Universities of Lausanne and Zurich. He achieved Bachelor of Arts whilst at Lausanne in 1954. He also studied Theory of Art History, at Grenoble University in 1977-1978, writing a dissertation on the Symbolic Nature of the Persian Mosque.

Journalistic career

He was a columnist in art-history, and editor at the Swiss newspaper Tribune de Geneve from 1955 to 1962, and a radio journalist at Radio Suisse in 1957 An editor for Rizzoli. In 1963 he became general editor of the Swiss magazine Radio-TV and architectural editor of the journal Werk-Œuvre in 1972. He was made a Knight of the Legion of Honour in 2004.

Books and publications