Ar. CHARLES W.MOORE

SUBMITTED TO:-AR. PRAGYA JAIN

SUBMITTED BY:-MUKUND SUTHAR3RD YEAR,SEM-VI,AF.O.A.P. J.N.USTART

CHARLES WiLLARD MOORE iS AN AMERiCAN ARCHiTECT, EDUCATOR AND WRiTERCREDITED AS THE INSTIGATOR OF POST-MODERNISM

WHO IS MOORE ?

BORN: OCTOBER 31, 1925NATIONALITY: AMERICANEDUCATION: 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 : CoastalStyle : 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 Street terminates at Lafayette Street.

GROUND FLOOR PLAN FiRST FLOOR PLAN

POYDRAS STREETCLOCK 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

WATER FLOW iN PiZZA D’iTALiA DELiCATESSEN ORDERS

ViEW OF PiZZA D’iTALiA

PiAZZA DE iTALiA PHOTOS ?

COLUMN CAPiTAL

2.) BEVERLY HiLLS CiViC CENTER ?

Location : 455,North Rexford Drive, Beverly Hills California.Construction : 1990Climate : CoastalStyle : 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 triangle. The plazas transformed the free-standing City Hall into a background building, putting the emphasis on the open space

SiTE PLAN GROUND FLOOR PLAN

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 landscapes 

SiTE 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

THE - ENDTHANK YOU