Architect Charles Moore (1925-1993) was not only celebrated for his designs; he was also an admired writer and teacher. Though he wrote clearly and passionately about places, he was perhaps unique in avoiding the tone and stance of the personal manifesto. Through his buildings, books, and travels, Moore consistently sought insights into the questions that always underlie architecture and design: What does it mean to make a place, and how do we inhabit those places? How do we continue to build upon but respect the landscape? How do we reconcile democracy and private land ownership? What is original? What is taste? What is the relationship between past and present? How do we involve inhabitants in making places? Finally, what is public life? As the world becomes smaller, and the uniqueness of places and landscapes gives way to sameness, Moore's celebration of the vernacular and of the surprising are more relevant than ever.The pieces in this book span the years 1952 to 1993 and engage a myriad of topics and movements, such as contextualism, community participation, collaboration, environmentally sensitive design, and historic preservation. The essays in this book reflect as well Moore's scholarship, humanism, urbanity, and great wit.

You Have to Pay for the Public Life: Selected Essays of Charles W. Moore

Arts & Photography

Moore, Charles Willard

Architecture

Mit Pr

Previously uncollected essays of an architect whose love of people, buildings, and nature was reflected in the places he built.
Architect Charles Moore (1925-1993) was not only celebrated for his designs; he was also an admired writer and teacher. Though he wrote clearly and passionately about places, he was perhaps unique in avoiding the tone and stance of the personal manifesto. Through his buildings, books, and travels, Moore consistently sought insights into the questions that always underlie architecture and design: What does it mean to make a place, and how do we inhabit those places? How do we continue to build upon but respect the landscape? How do we reconcile democracy and private land ownership? What is original? What is taste? What is the relationship between past and present? How do we involve inhabitants in making places? Finally, what is public life? As the world becomes smaller, and the uniqueness of places and landscapes gives way to sameness, Moore's celebration of the vernacular and of the surprising are more relevant than ever.The pieces in this book span the years 1952 to 1993 and engage a myriad of topics and movements, such as contextualism, community participation, collaboration, environmentally sensitive design, and historic preservation. The essays in this book reflect as well Moore's scholarship, humanism, urbanity, and great wit.

Literature & Fiction

Essays & Correspondence

The Yale Mathematics Building competition: Architecture for a time of questioning

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

Yale University Press

With a new epilogue Richly illustrated with houses large and small, old and new, with photographs, plans, and cutaway drawings, this is a book for people who want a house but who may not know what they really need, or what they have a right to expect. The authors establish the basis for good building by examining houses in the small Massachusetts town of Edgartown; in Santa Barbara, California, where a commitment was made to re-create an imaginary Spanish past; and in Sea Ranch, on the northern California coast, where the authors attempt to create a community. These examples demonstrate how individual houses can express the care, energies, and dreams of the people who live in them, and can contribute to a larger sense of place.

The Place of Houses

Photography & Video

Henry Holt Co.

Bound in the publisher's original quarter blue cloth and blue boards with the spine stamped in silver. Dust jacket is not price clipped.

An Architectural Life: Memoirs & Memories on Charles W. Moore

Biographies & Memoirs

Keim, Kevin P.

Arts & Literature

Little,Brown & Co

Charles Moore's classic is in turn knowledgeable, warm, witty, and slightly irreverent. Moore's genius was his ability to tie the disparate built environments of Los Angeles into a coherent whole. We read with pleasure the miniature essays that comprise his entries on subjects as varied as Disneyland, Riverside's Mission Inn, the Gamble House, and downtown Los Angeles. While still a practical guide, Moore's work approaches literature.

City Observed: Los Angeles

Travel

Campbell, Regula

Becker, Peter

United States

Hennessey & Ingalls

This monograph presents the work of the internationally acclaimed, California-based firm Moore Ruble Yudell, whose unique expertize in community involvement and participatory design has profoundly influenced the course of contemporary architecture, particularly in the areas of housing and community projects. The 34 projects featured here include the award winning projects for Rodes House (Los Angeles), Tegel Harbor Housing and the Humboldt Library (Berlin) and St Matthew's Church (California); a great variety of work which reflects the architects' sensitivity to the historical, architectural and natural features of the places where they build and their concern with balancing this sense of place with the aims and requests of their clients. James Steele presents separate interviews with Charles Moore, John Ruble and Robert Yudell. Essays by Charles Moore and Robert Yudell outline their philosophies and enhance our understanding of their work.

Moore Ruble Yudell

St Martins Pr

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