Main entry:

Moore, Charles W., 1925-1993.

Title & Author:

You have to pay for the public life : selected essays of Charles W. Moore / edited by Kevin Keim.

Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2001.

Description:

xxv, 395 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
New Hope for Local Art -- Gospel According to Wright -- Shapes of Our Time -- Emergency Surgery Was Necessary -- Environment and Industry -- Commentary for Princeton's Beaux Arts and Its New Academicism -- Restoration of Old Monterey -- Architecture of Water -- Plaster in Architecture -- Review of Louis I. Kahn: L'uomo, il maestro and What Will Be Has Always Been -- Hadrian's Villa -- Sagamore -- Toward Making Places -- Review of The Earth, the Temple and the Gods / Vincent Scully -- You Have to Pay for the Public Life -- Unposed Questions -- Ghirardelli Square -- Cannery: How It Looks to a Critic -- Plug It In, Rameses, and See if It Lights Up, Because We Aren't Going to Keep It Unless It Works -- Eleven Agonies and One Euphoria -- Interview with John Wesley Cook and Heinrich Klotz -- Edifice Rex -- Schindler: Vulnerable and Powerful -- In Similar States of Undress -- Learning from Adam's House -- From The Yale Mathematics Building Competition -- Southernness -- Architecture and Fairy Tales -- Impressions of Japanese Architecture -- Scully's Revenge -- Review of Selected Drawings: H. H. Richardson and His Office / James F. O'Gorman -- Master of Allusion: Sir John Soane -- Creating of Place -- Planning the Hood Museum of Art -- Ten Years Later -- For Don Canty -- Reflections of a Less Critical Regionalism and Other Burdensome Matters -- Interview with Leon Luxemburg -- Qualities of Quality -- Hispanic Lecture -- Soane, Schinkel, and Jefferson -- Triple Threat Heritage (Inspiration for a New Architecture) -- Foreword to The Texas Rangers / Alexander Caragonne.

Summary:

"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 among modern architects 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 is 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 book reflects as well Moore's scholarship, humanism, urbanity, and great wit."--Jacket.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

0262133733 (hc. ; alk. paper)
9780262133739 (hc. ; alk. paper)
9780262633017
0262633019

Subject:

Moore, Charles W., 1925-1993 Aesthetics.
Architecture.
architecture (discipline)
Gebouwen.
American architects.
Architecture (object genre) United States 1950-2000.
Architectural theory.

Form/genre:

Essays.

Added entries:

Keim, Kevin P.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 218689
Call No.: NA44.M821.A35 2001
Status: Available