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.
Biography
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 this 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 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...
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