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基本信息
·出版社：Little Brown & Co
·页码：304 页码
·出版日：1996年
·ISBN：0821221671
·条码：9780821221679
·版次：1
·装帧：平装
·开本：8开 8开
内容简介
Book Description
Amazon.com
A collection of prose by Charles Moore, the architect whose work, some say, symbolized postmodernism. Accompanying his writings, which combine theory and personal reminiscences about his passion for designing and the importance of place, is a history of his artistic evolution, as well as his teaching career, and the recollections and testimony of colleagues and friends. The work is carefully edited Kevin P. Keim.
FromPublishers Weekly
Postmodernist maverick Charles W. Moore (1925-1993) was an indefatigable, globe-hopping "architectural nomadic monk" from Battle Creek, Michigan, who seldom stayed in one place for longer than two weeks, observes Keim, the architect's longtime friend and collaborator. Rejecting the uncompromising doctrines of modernism as a Princeton grad student, and later as chair of Yale's architecture department in the mid-1960s, Moore willfully plunged into eras, cultures and styles, absorbing what he could from Piranesi, Spain's Alhambra palace, Balinese villages, chaos theory, Palladian villas, Fellini, Japanese Zen architecture. This generously illustrated dossier, combining Moore's reminiscences, travel diary excerpts, letters and essays plus recollections by friends and collaborators, all woven together by Keim's biographical narrative, provides a surprisingly intimate portrait of a driven, irreverent innovator who cloaked his strong ego in self-deprecation and shyness.
FromLibrary Journal
This charming, endearing book documents the life of Charles Moore as opposed to his works, which have been covered in previous monographs. Combining the memoirs Moore was writing at the time of his death with writings of his assistant, Keim, the book contains reminiscences, letters, tributes, and a straightforward narration of Moore's peripatetic life. The word peripatetic was invented for Moore, an eccentric architect who traveled incessantly. Most architects would be happy to establish a single, thriving architectural practice in one city. Moore established four in three states in the course of his lifetime and was also an influential educator as dean of the Yale School of Architecture in the 1960s and as professor at the University of Texas until his death in 1993. Through dazzling, iconoclastic, Mannerist works Moore seeded and nourished the development of postmodernism in America among generations of colleagues and students. A selfless bon vivant, he is still mourned by many and well memorialized in this book.?Peter Kaufman, Boston Architectural Ctr.
From the Author
Moore Book and Moore Foundation
Kevin Keim is currently the Director of the Charles W. Moore Foundation in Austin, Texas. We are dedicated to preserving Moore1s last home as an international study center for architecture. The house is described in detail in our book; if you are planning a trip to Austin or are interested in the work of the Foundation, please do not hesitate to conact us. Our phone number is (512) 477-6660; our e-mail address is MooreFound@aol.com
Book Dimension:
length: (cm)25.4 width:(cm)20.2
目录
Acknowledgmnts
EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION
Magic,Wonder,and Charm:The Halcyon Years
CHAPTER ONE Foundations
CHAPTER TWO Beginnings
CHAPTER THREE Princeton and Louis Kahn
CHAPTER FOUR MLTW and the Sea Ranch
CHAPTER FIVE Place Making and Cities
CHAPTER SIX Architecture in a Time of Questioning
CHAPTER EIGHT Centerbrook
CHAPTER NINE Involving People
CHAPTER TEN My Own Houses
CHAPTER ELEVEN Urban Innovations
CHAPTER Water and Stone
CHAPTER THIRTEEN Moore Ruble Yudell
CHAPTER FOURTEEN Soane,Schinkel,and Jefferson
CHAPTER FIFTEEN The World as a Garden
CHAPTER SIXTEEN Moore/Andersson
CHAPTER Seventeen A Fading Century
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN Principles and Enthusiasms
Index
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