Main entry:

Keim, Kevin P.

Title & Author:

An architectural life : memoirs & memories of Charles W. Moore / written and edited by Kevin P. Keim.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication:

Boston : Little, Brown and Co., ©1996.

Description:

xi, 291 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm

Notes:
"A Bulfinch Press book."
Includes index.
Magic, wonder, and charm : the halcyon years -- Foundations -- Beginnings -- Princeton and Louis Kahn -- MLTW and the Sea Ranch -- Place making and cities -- Architecture in a time of questioning -- Habitation and house making -- Centerbrook -- Involving people -- My own houses -- Urban innovations -- Water and stone -- Moore Ruble Yudell -- Soane, Schinkel, and Jefferson -- The world as a garden -- Moore / Andersson -- A fading century -- Principles and enthusiasms.

Summary:

"The life of one of this century's preeminent American architects, whose ebullient personality and jazzy, eclectic style left an enduring legacy, is captured in these pages. Charles Moore (1925-1993) was a maverick genius, a gregarious pied piper who moved from one university to the next, establishing architectural firms at each new locale and overseeing projects all over the world - including, most famously, Sea Ranch in California and the fantastical Piazza d'Italia in New Orleans. Combining whimsy and rigor, high art and low, the ordinary and the ornate, his buildings and other projects are fresh, witty, surprising, unconventional - and always appealing human-scaled. Ever open to new influences - from Alvar Aalto and Frank Lloyd Wright to Paul Klee, feng-shui, Balinese villages, chaos theory, and the villas of Palladio - Moore himself exerted enormous influence on a whole generation of American architects. Most remarkable is the fact that Moore was as expressive with words as he was with building materials, making his posthumous writings a great addition not only to the literature on architecture but to twentieth-century American culture as well."--Book jacket.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

0821221671
9780821221679

Subject:

Moore, Charles W., 1925-1993.
Moore, Charles Willard, 1925-
Moore, Charles Willard 1925-1993
Moore, Charles Willard.
Architects United States Biography.
Architectes États-Unis Biographies.
Architects
Biografie
Gebouwen.
Architects United States 20th century Biography.
United States

Form/genre:

Biographies.
Memoirs.
Correspondence.

Added entries:

Moore, Charles W., 1925-1993.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 155322
Call No.: NA44.M821.9 K4 1996
Status: Available