# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sibyl-moholy-nagy
# Generated: 2026-08-15T00:31:26.059Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sibyl-moholy-nagy"
name: "Sibyl Moholy-Nagy"
slug: "sibyl-moholy-nagy"
description: "Sibyl Moholy-Nagy was an architectural and art historian. She is known for shifting architectural attention away from iconic modernist buildings towards vernacular structures, urban history, and the lived experiences of building inhabitants. She was one of the first three internal critics who kept the U.S. architectural establishment continually on the run during the 50s and 60s\") of what she regarded as the excesses of postwar modernist architecture, arguing that it had lost connection to historical precedent, urban continuity, and human experience. Moholy-Nagy was the first female full-time professor at the Pratt Institute in New York City. Recognized as “the pillar on which Pratt Institute was built” for her significant contributions to curriculum development and her student-acclaimed teaching style. Originally a German citizen, she accompanied her second husband, the Hungarian Bauhaus artist László Moholy-Nagy, in his move to the United States. She was the author of several books on architectural history including Matrix of Man, Native Genius in Anonymous Architecture, and Moholy-Nagy: Experiment in Totality, of a study of her late husband’s work."
tagline: "German-Hungarian American art historian"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Sibylle_Pietzsch_(1927).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1903-10-29"
deathDate: "1971-01-08"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.49
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.01422
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1860496/"
    handle:    "nm1860496"
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    title: "سيبيل موهولى ناجى"
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    title: "Sibyl Moholy-Nagy"
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    title: "Sibyl Moholy-Nagy"
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    title: "Сибілла Могой-Надь"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump