Charles moore

famous works and life of charles moore

1. Charles Moore

2. LIFE & WORKS OF CHARLES MOORE CHARLES WILLARD MOORE (1925-1993)
American postmodern architect and educator Charles Willard Moore is
noted for his eclectic range of historicist buildings, each of which
represents a unique response to the context of its site and culture.

3. LIFE OF CHARLES MOORE
Charles Willard Moore was anAmericanarchitectborn
in 31 October 1925 and died in 16 December 1993.
He was a educator, writer,fellowof the American
institute of architects, and winner of theAIA gold
medalin 1991.

4. EDUCATION AND CAREER
Moore graduated from theuniversity of Michiganin 1947 and earned both
amaster'sand aPh.D. atPrinceton universityin 1957,where he remained for an
additional year as apost-doctoralfellow.
During this fellowship, Moore served as a teaching assistant for Louis Kahn.
In 1959, began teaching at theuniversity of California, Berkeley.
Moore went on to become dean of the Yaleschool of architecture from 1965 to 1970.
In 1975, he moved to theuniversity of California, Los Angelswhere he continued
teaching.
Finally, in 1985, he became the O'Neil ford centennial professor of architecture at
theuniversity of Texas at Austin.
Moore opened his firm named urban innovation group,in collaboration with other
architect namely Lyndon, Turnbull, Whitaker His doctoral dissertation, "water in
architecture," represented the role of fountain in public spaces. He wrote or co-
authored eleven books, in which he emphasized his opinion that buildings should reflect
the particular circumstances of place and use

5. After 1974 Moore worked mostly in Los Angeles with the urban innovations
group1991 Moore received the gold medal of the American institute of
architects (AIA) for his "outstanding contributions to the profession,".
His goal was to work within the existing content and to enhance its essential
character.
His works was called playful of drama and surprise .
He had the amazing ability to transform historical architecture into work
relevant to the modern world

6. ARCHITECTURAL PRINCIPLES
If we are to devote our lives to making buildings, we have to believe that
they are worth it, that they live and speak (of themselves, and the people
who made them and thus inhabit them).
Buildings must be inhabitable by the bodies, minds and memories of
humankind.
The spaces we feel, the shapes we see, and the ways we move in buildings
should assist the human memory in reconstructing connections through
space and time.

7. IMPORTANT BUILDINGS
THE INFLUENTIALSEA RANCHPLANNED COMMUNITY INCALIFORNIA-1963
THE FACULTY CLUB AT UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA-1968
THEBEVERLY HILLS CIVIC CENTER-1992
THECALIFORNIA CENTER FOR THE ARTS (1993)
THEHAAS SCHOOL OF BUSINESSAT THEUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY -
1995
THE EXUBERANT,POSTMODERNARCHETYPEPIAZZA D'ITALIA ,AN
URBANPUBLIC PLAZAINNEW ORLEANS ,
LOUISIANA-1978 ORINDA HOUSING , CALIFORNIA.

8. CHARLES MOORE’S HOUSE (ORINDA, CALIFORNIA)
Designer: Charles W. Moore
Location: Orinda, California
Year: 1962
Building: Small house
Construction System: Wood frame
Architectural Style: Neo Vernacular

9. Budget of the project was 11,000
dollars.
The site is a slope covered with live oak
tree.
It is a open square floor plan of 30
square meter.
Wallswere used on the four sides
except the cornersand to separate the
cooking and machine areas and the water
closet (toilet).
The corners of the house have glass
sliding doors which allow light into the
house as well as opens up to the oak
woods
CHARLES MOORE’S HOUSE (ORINDA, CALIFORNIA)

10. Inside there are eight wooden columns from an old factory that form two
aedicule's (a small shrine) of different sizes which are both covered with a
roof.
The big space was used as living room and the smaller one consisted the
solar bath tub along with a shower, which formed one of the main attraction
of the house.
Book shelves were used to separate spaces for bedroom areas . A multiple
truss connect the two aedicule's.

13. On top of it all is the main roof, which was a traditional vernacular roof
with a flat top, which has a skylight .
A bed by the bath tub replicate the idea of sitting in the beach and
looking towards the ocean .

18. PIAZZA D’ITALIA (NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA)

19. PIAZZA D’ITALIA (NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA)
Moore designed it in conjunction with New Orleans based Perez Architects.
Is known as one of Moore’s best-known and influential works.
The plaza was commissioned to recognize the contributions of Italian
culture in New Orleans.
This piazza is set in a mixed area of New Orleans. Located behind the Italian
American Cultural Centre.
It was to be an unexpected plaza, like the squares in Europe that open up
from a narrow road or alley.
The Piazza d’Italia fell almost immediately into disuse and disrepair.
Partial renovations were done in 2004.

20. It is a public fountain in the shape of the Italian peninsula, surrounded by
multiple hemi cyclicalcolonnades, aclock tower, and acampanile (bell
tower)andRoman temple-the latter two expressed in abstract, minimalist,
space frame fashion.
The central fountain, located in the middle of a city block, was accessed in
two directions: via a tapering, keyhole-shaped passage extending from Poydras
Street, or through an arched opening in the clock tower sited where Commerce
Street terminates at Lafayette Street.

25. The fountain and its surrounding colonnades playfully appropriated
classical forms and orders, executing them in modern materials
(e.g.,stainless steel,neon) or kinetically (e.g., suggesting the acanthus
leaves of traditionalCorinthian capitalsthrough the use of water jets).
The Piazza and its centre piece, St. Joseph's Foundation, form an
ensemble of unqualified pleasure and delight, the perfect expression of
the Gloria divita that is characteristically Italian.

26. There are six concentric colonnades out of which five of them, represent the
five classical orders of architecture( Doric, Corinthian, Tuscan and Composite)
in proper order with the proper capitals, and there’s a sixth stylized colonnade
in front, the red one and called The Delicatessen Order(tee hee) which closely
looks like Ironic Order or Dorky Order