CHARLES

MOORE
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 INTRODUCTION
 Charles Willard Moore was an American architect born in
31 October 1925 and died in 16 December 1993. He was a
educator, writer, fellow of the American institute of
architects, and winner of the AIA gold medal in 1991.
 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.
 In 1959, he began teaching at the university of California,
Berkeley.
 He wrote or co- authored eleven books, in which he
emphasized his opinion that buildings should reflect the
particular circumstances of place and use.
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.
 IMPORTANT BUILDINGS
 THE INFLUENTIAL SEA RANCH PLANNED COMMUNITY IN CALIFORNIA – 1963.
 THE FACULTY CLUB AT UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA- 1968.
 THE BEVERLY HILLS CIVIC CENTER -1992.
 THE CALIFORNIA CENTER FOR THE ARTS (1993).
 THE HAAS SCHOOL OF BUSINESS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA,
BERKELEY – 1995.
 THE EXUBERANT, POSTMODERN ARCHETYPE PIAZZA D'ITALIA ,AN URBAN
PUBLIC PLAZA IN NEW ORLEANS.
 LOUISIANA-1978 ORINDA HOUSING , CALIFORNIA.
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
 Budget of the project was 11,000 dollars.
 It is a open square floor plan of 30 square meter.
 Walls were used on the four sides except the corners and 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.
 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.
 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 .
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ELEVATION SECTION
INTERIOR VIEWS
PIAZZA D’ITALIA (NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA)

 Moore designed it in conjunction with New Orleans based

Perez Architects.
 It 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.
 Partial renovations were done in 2004.
• It is a public fountain in the shape of the Italian

peninsula, surrounded by multiple hemi cyclical

colonnades, a clock tower, and a campanile (bell tower)
and Roman 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.
• The fountain and its surrounding colonnades playfully
appropriated classical forms and orders, executing them in
modern materials.
• 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.
• 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
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