Ar. CHARLES W.

MOOR
SUBMITTED TO:- SUBMITTED BY:-
AR. PRAGYA JAIN MUKUND SUTHAR
3RD YEAR,SEM-VI,A
START F.O.A.P. J.N.U
 WHO IS MOORE ?
CHARLES WiLLARD MOORE iS AN
AMERiCAN ARCHiTECT, EDUCATOR AND WRiTER
CREDITED AS THE INSTIGATOR OF POST-MODERNISM

BORN: OCTOBER 31, 1925

NATIONALITY: AMERICAN
EDUCATION: UNIVERSTY OF
MICHIGAN(B.ARCH)

PRINCETON UNIVERSITY
(M.ARCH)
AWARDS: AiA GOLD MEDAL (1991)
 CAREER OF MOORE ?

• Charles Moore enrolled in The University of

Michigan School of Architecture in September
1942.

• From his only surviving projects from

undergraduate
course, the worker’s housing project reveals
Charles
fascination for Modern design.

• The next big turning point in Moore’s career was

the tie up with CENTERBROOK

•Serving as a teaching assistant for Louis Kahn, the

Philadelphia architect who taught a design studio.
 FAMOUS BOOKS OF MOORE ?

• WATER AND ARCHITECTURE

• THE PLACE OF HOUSES

• DiMENSIONS

• BODY MEMORY AND ARCHITECTURE

• THE POETICS OF GARDENS

• THE CiTY OBSERVED: LOS ANGELES

• CHAMBERS FOR A MEMORY PALACE

 DESiGN PRiNCiPLES OF MOORE ?

FiRST PRiNCiPLE !!
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 )

SECOND PRiNCiPLE !!
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.
 WORKS OF MOORE ?

• St. Mathew’s church, Pacific Palisades

• Piazza de italia, Louisiana (1978)
• Soane house, United Kingdom
• Sea Ranch Condomium, California(1963)
• The California Center Of Arts, California (1993)
• The Beverly Hills Civic Center, California(1992)
• Williams College Museum Of Art, Massachusetts
• Lurie Tower At The University Of Michigan(1995)
• The Preview Center (Now Bank Of America Branch),
Florida(1996)
 1.) PiAZZA DE iTALiA ?

Location : Lafayette and Commerce Streets in

downtown
New Orleans, Louisiana.
Construction : RCC
Climate : Coastal
Style : Post Modern Architecture, Art Deco
Spanish Revival
 PiAZZA DE iTALiA PLANNiNG ?
• The Piazza D italia is an urban public plaza located at Lafayette
and Commerce Streets in downtown New Orleans, Louisiana.
• The location ultimately chosen for the Piazza D italia was a city block
sited
in the semi-derelict upriver edge of downtown, four blocks from Canal
Street
and the edge of the French Quarter and three blocks from the
Mississippi River.

SiTE PLAN
 PiAZZA DE iTALiA PLANNiNG ?
• 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 GROUND FLOOR PLAN FiRST FLOOR PLAN
Street terminates at Lafayette Street.

POYDRAS STREET

CLOCK TOWER STREET

 PiAZZA DE iTALiA PLANNiNG ?
• The fountain and its surrounding colonnades playfully
appropriated classical forms and orders, executing them in
modern
materials (e.g., stainless steel, neon) or kinetically (e.g.,
suggesting
the acanthus leaves of traditional Corinthian capitals through
the
use of water jets).

• 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 Doric Order
 PiAZZA DE iTALiA PHOTOS ?

COLUMN CAPiTAL

ViEW OF PiZZA D’iTALiA

WATER FLOW iN PiZZA D’iTALiA DELiCATESSEN ORDERS

 2.) BEVERLY HiLLS CiViC CENTER ?

Location : 455,North Rexford Drive, Beverly Hills

California.
Construction : 1990
Climate : Coastal
Style : Post Modern Architecture, Art Deco
Spanish Revival
 BEVERLY HiLLS CiViC CENTER ?
• It includes courtyards, colonnades, promenades, and buildings, with
both open
and semi-enclosed spaces, stairways and balconies.
• The most striking aspect of the plan was a string of three colonnaded
oval
plazas that established a diagonal axis across the two blocks, tying the
civic
center to the business
SiTE PLAN triangle. The plazas transformed
GROUND FLOORthe free-
PLAN
standing City
Hall into a background building, putting the emphasis on the open space
 BEVERLY HiLLS CiViC CENTER ?
• Three oval courtyards bounded by tiled arcades are arranged diagonally
on a
north-south axis, linking the two city blocks that comprise the civic
center.

• The use of colorful tile alludes to City Hall’s tiled dome, and the
terraced
courtyard on the building’s western elevation reflects its original design,
with
scroll-topped patio walls decorated with urns and two fountains in a
symmetrical garden.

• The court gardens, planted with palms and subtropical plants, are
abstractions
of Southern California
SiTElandscapes
MODEL
 LAST DAY OF MOORE LiFE ?

• At the Gold medal celebration with friends.

• In 1993 Charles W. Moore passed away………

in San Francisco……..
SiR MOORE iS NO MORE

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