Architect: Charles Willard Moore

Moore opened a practice in New Haven, Connecticut and in the following years practiced under a confusing variety of professional configurations, partners, and names, including Moore, Lyndon, Turnbull, Whitaker, MLTW, Centerbrook Architects, Moore Ruble Yudell, Urban Innovations Group, Charles W. Moore Incorporated,and Moore/Andersson. The constant changes resulted, in part, from Moore's extensive worldwide travel and his moves to California and then to Austin, Texas. 日本的GA 建築出版社1980 有日英對照MLTW的專集Special Issue Charles Moore and Company-- 台灣的六合出版社有 查理士‧摩爾 (1988 第2 版   王承熹譯)

Moore preferred conspicuous design features, including loud color combinations, supergraphics, stylistic collisions, the re-use of esoteric historical-design solutions, and the use of non-traditional materials such as plastic, (aluminized) PET film, platinum tiles, and neon signs, As a result, his work provokes arousal, demands attention, and sometimes tips over into kitsch. His mid-1960s New Haven residence, published in Playboy, featured an open, freestanding shower in the middle of the room, its water nozzled through a giant sunflower. Such design features (historical detail, ornament, fictional treatments, ironic significations) made Moore one of the chief innovators of postmodern architecture, along with Robert Venturi and Michael Graves, among others. Moore'sPiazza d'Italia (1978), an urban public plaza in New Orleans, made prolific use of his exuberant design vocabulary and is frequently cited as the archetypal postmodern project.

In addition to his influential work as an architect and university educator, Moore was a prolific author, publishing a dozen books. Many other books, monographs, and articles document his designs.

• The Place of Houses (with Gerald Allen and Donlyn Lyndon)
• Dimensions (with Gerald Allen)
• Body, Memory and Architecture (with Kent Bloomer 1977 )  身體‧記憶與建築  杭州:中國美術2008"
• Body, Memory, and Architecture," written with Kent Bloomer during the Yale years, is a plea for architects to design structures for three-dimensional user experience instead of two-dimensional visual appearance. "The City Observed: Los Angeles" remains an excellent guide to Los Angeles' significant architecture.
• The Poetics of Gardens
• The City Observed: Los Angeles (with Peter Becker and Regula Campbell)
• Water and Architecture
• Chambers for a Memory Palace (with Donlyn Lyndon)

Title	Architect: the life and work of Charles W. Moore A William Abrahams book
Author	David Littlejohn
Publisher	Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1984
Original from	the University of Michigan

Charles Willard Moore
Piazza d'Italia, New Orleans
Born	October 31, 1925 Benton Harbor, Michigan
Died	December 16, 1993 (aged 68) Austin, Texas
Nationality	American
Alma mater	University of Michigan B.Arch,Hon.D.Arch Princeton University M.Arch, Ph.D
Awards	AIA Gold Medal (1991)
Practice	Moore Ruble Yudell
Buildings	Piazza D'Italia Haas School of Business
Projects	Sea Ranch, California Yale Building Project