Post Modern Arch. Charles Moore
Post Modern Arch. Charles Moore
Post Modern Arch. Charles Moore
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Charles Moore
Charles Willard Moore (October 31, 1925 December 16, 1993)
was an American architect, educator, writer
Fellow of the American Institute of Architects, and winner of the AIA Gold Medal in 1991.
Charles Moore graduated from the University of Michigan in 1947 and earned both a Master's and
a Ph.D at Princeton University in 1957, where he remained for an additional year as a post-doctoral
fellow.
During post-doctoral fellowship, Moore served as a teaching assistant for Louis Kahn, the
Philadelphia architect who taught a design studio. It was also at Princeton that Moore developed
relationships with Hey fellow students Donlyn Lyndon, William Turnbull, Jr., Richard Peters, and
Hugh Hardy, who would remain lifelong friends and collaborators. During the Princeton years,
Moore designed and built a house for his mother in Pebble Beach, California, and worked during
the summers for architect Wallave Holm of neighboring Monterey. Moore's Master's Thesis
explored ways to preserve and integrate Monterey's historic adobe dwellings into the fabric of the
city. His Doctoral dissertation, "Water and Architecture", was a survey of the presence of
water in shaping the experience of place; many decades later, the dissertation became the
basis of a book with the same title.
In 1959, Moore left New Jersey and began teaching at the University of California, Berkeley. Moore
went on to become Dean of the Yale School of Architecture from 1965 through 1970, directly
after the tenure of Paul Rudolph. In 1975, he moved to the University of California, Los Angeles
where he continued teaching (one of his students was Lem Chin). Finally, in 1985, he became the
O'Neil Ford Centennial Professor of Architecture at the University of Texas at Austin.
Moore's outgoing, absorptive, and engaging personality and his dedication to innovation,
collaboration, debate, and direct experience was sharp contrast to Rudolph's authoritarian
approach. With Kent Bloomer, Moore founded the Yale Building Project in 1967 as a way
both to demonstrate social responsibility and demystify the construction process for firstyear students. The project remains active at Yale.