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Moore, Charles Willard was born on October 31, 1925 in Benton Harbor, Michigan, United States. Son of Charles Ephraim and Nanette Kathryn (Almendinger) Moore.
( As teachers of architectural design, Kent Bloomer and C...)
As teachers of architectural design, Kent Bloomer and Charles Moore have attempted to introduce architecture from the standpoint of how buildings are experienced, how the affect individuals and communities emotionally and provide us with a sense of joy, identity, and place. In giving priority to these issues and in questioning the professional reliance on abstract two-dimensional drawings, they often find themselves in conflict with a general and undebated assumption that architecture is a highly specialized system with a set of prescribed technical goals, rather than a sensual social art historically derived from experiences and memories of the human body. This book, an outgrowth of their joint teaching efforts, places the human body at the center of our understanding of architectural form. Body, Memory, and Architecture traces the significance of the body from its place as the divine organizing principle in the earliest built forms to its near elimination from architectural thought in this century. The authors draw on contemporary models of spatial perception as well as on body-image theory in arguing for a return of the body to its proper place in the architectural equation.
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( There is a universality about the creation of gardens a...)
There is a universality about the creation of gardens across time and in diverse cultures that has inspired this entirely different garden book: a playful and affectionate typology of gardens; a pattern book in which a score of landscapes and gardens are drawn, described, and analyzed not just as a bouquet of pleasures but as sources, lodes to be mined for materials, shapes and relationships, and ideas for transforming our own backyards. The Poetics of Gardens is a celebration of places and the gardens they can become. Most of the 500 sketches, axonometric drawings, and photographs were created especially for this book. They explore the special qualities of places and the acts that can transform them into gardens. The authors discuss the qualities that create the promise of a garden the shapes of land and water, the established plants, the light and wind, the climate and show how these can be organized to give a place a special meaning. And they pay particular attention to the "rituals of habitation" by which we imaginatively take possession of places on the surface of the earth. The Poetics of Gardens examines great gardens made in other places, with other climates, at other times from ancient Rome to modem England, from Ball to Botany Bay, from the court of Ch'ien Lung to the magic kingdom of Walt Disney to explore their devices and record their images, scents, and sounds. The authors discuss the adaptation of the great garden traditions of the past to North American soil and call together the creators of these gardens to speculate about how their patterns and ideas can be appropriated, transformed, and composed into places that come alive for us.
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( With a new epilogue Richly illustrated with houses lar...)
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.
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Moore, Charles Willard was born on October 31, 1925 in Benton Harbor, Michigan, United States. Son of Charles Ephraim and Nanette Kathryn (Almendinger) Moore.
Bachelor of Architecture, University of Michigan, 1947; Master of Fine Arts, Princeton University, 1956; Doctor of Philosophy, Princeton University, 1957; Master of Arts (honorary), Yale University, 1965.
Architect, Mario Corbett (Architect), 1947-1948; architect, Joseph Allen Stein (Architect), 1948-1949; assistant professor, U. Utah, 1950-1952; assistant professor architecture, Princeton University, 1957-1959; associate professor, University of California, Berkeley, l959-62; department chairman architecture, University of California, 1962-1965; department chairman architecture, Yale University, New Haven, 1965-1969; dean, Yale University, 1969-1971; professor, Yale University, 1971-1975; professor architecture, University of California at Los Angeles, l975-85; head department, University of California at Los Angeles, 1976-1977, 77-80; architect, Moore Lyndon Turnbull Whitaker (Architects), 1961-1964; architect, Moore Turnbull, San Francisco and New Haven, 1964-1970; architect, Charles Moore Associates, Essex, Connecticut, 1970-1976; architect, Moore Grover Harper, Essex, Connecticut, and Moore Ruble Yudell, Los Angeles, 1976-1993; O'Neil Ford Centennial professor architecture, University Texas, Austin, 1985-1993.
(There is a universality about the creation of gardens acr...)
( There is a universality about the creation of gardens a...)
( As teachers of architectural design, Kent Bloomer and C...)
( With a new epilogue Richly illustrated with houses lar...)
Served to captain United States Army, 1952-1954. Fellow American Institute of Architects (Gold medal 1991).