Charles W. Moore created hundreds of buildings and outdoor spaces all over the world, including homes, museums, churches and office blocks. This text examines his work and explores what it means to inhabit and why it is vital to craft and make cities with care.
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A collection of prose by Charles Moore, the architect whose work, some say, symbolized postmodernism. Accompanying his writings, which combine theory and personal reminiscences about his passion for designing and the importance of place, is a history of his artistic evolution, as well as his teaching career, and the recollections and testimony of colleagues and friends. The work is carefully edited Kevin P. Keim.
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Postmodernist maverick Charles W. Moore (1925-1993) was an indefatigable, globe-hopping "architectural nomadic monk" from Battle Creek, Michigan, who seldom stayed in one place for longer than two weeks, observes Keim, the architect's longtime friend and collaborator. Rejecting the uncompromising doctrines of modernism as a Princeton grad student, and later as chair of Yale's architecture department in the mid-1960s, Moore willfully plunged into eras, cultures and styles, absorbing what he could from Piranesi, Spain's Alhambra palace, Balinese villages, chaos theory, Palladian villas, Fellini, Japanese Zen architecture. This generously illustrated dossier, combining Moore's reminiscences, travel diary excerpts, letters and essays plus recollections by friends and collaborators, all woven together by Keim's biographical narrative, provides a surprisingly intimate portrait of a driven, irreverent innovator who cloaked his strong ego in self-deprecation and shyness.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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