#Charles Moore

[evan-collins90]

Kwee House - Singapore (1984)

Designed by Moore Ruble Yudell Architects

Scanned from the book, 'Moore Ruble Yudell: Houses and Housing' (1993)

[joeinct]

Montgomery, Alabama, Photo by Charles Moore, 1965

[obsessedbyneon]

MASTER POST: The Piazza d'Italia, designed by Charles Moore. 1979 - 1979, New Orleans. Photos, plans, inspiration of the architect.

Location on Google Maps

Nowadays not a shade of its former glory. Also the setting is horrible, a Parking Lot ® hides most of it.

[archiveofaffinities]

Lawrence Halprin & Associates and Charles Moore with Moore / Lyndon / Turnbull / Whitaker Architects, Lovejoy Plaza, Portland, Oregon, 1961-1968

[uwmspeccoll]

Milestone Monday

On this day, September 18, in 1793, George Washington laid the cornerstone of the United States Capitol Building. He was aided by eight Freemasons dressed in full masonic regalia marking the beginning of a period of construction that lasted seven years and the dawning of the growth of the nation. In 1792, Thomas Jefferson put out a call for architectural design submissions for the Capitol Building and was won over by a late entry from amateur architect William Thornton. Thornton’s design was officially approved in April of 1793, with the caveat that French architect Stephen Hallet would review and modify his plans as needed.

Architect Glenn Brown (1854-1932) explored the history and design of the Capitol Building in his book History of the United States Capitol, published in two volumes by the Government Publishing Office from 1900-1903. For a decade, Brown worked with numerous institutions and organizations to gather plans, illustrations, and the history of the building through architecture and interior design. He highlights that the importance of the building’s merit is not just in its construction and completeness, but its aspirations. Historian Charles Moore, secretary to Michigan Senator James McMillan, writes in the introduction, “[T]he Capitol is not a creation, but a growth, and its highest value lies in the fact that it never was, and it never will be, finished.”

View other Milestone Monday posts.

– Jenna, Special Collections Graduate Intern

[aulel-process]

Jay Steffy, Interior, Circa 1980

I can't find much on Jay Steffy's design philosophy but I read his 1980s interior as postmodern.

"Postmodernism had begun as a radical fringe movement in the 1970s, but became the dominant look of the 1980s, the 'designer decade'. Vivid colour, theatricality and exaggeration: everything was a style statement. Whether surfaces were glossy, faked or deliberately distressed, they reflected the desire to combine subversive statements with commercial appeal. Magazines and music were important mediums for disseminating this new phase of Postmodernism. The work of Italian designers – especially the groups Studio Alchymia and Memphis – was promoted across the world through publications like Domus. Meanwhile, the energy of post-punk subculture was broadcast far and wide through music videos and cutting-edge graphics. This was the moment of the New Wave: a few thrilling years when image was everything." ( 1 )

"The postmodern outlook is characterized by self-referentiality, epistemological relativism, moral relativism, pluralism, irony, irreverence, and eclecticism; it rejects the "universal validity" of binary oppositions, stable identity, hierarchy, and categorization." ( 2 )

Piazza D'Italia, Charles Moore and August Perez III, 1978

Robert A. M. Stern: Residence and Pool House Llewelyn Park, New Jersey, 1982

M2 building, Kengo Kuma, Japan, 1991

"Less is More" "Less is a Bore" LOL:

"If the Modernist movement could be epitomized in a single phrase, many would choose Mies van der Rohe’s succinct utterance, “less is more.” Three authoritative words, three stern syllables: The slogan came to embody the very architectural language it engendered, spawning a whole generation of architects who sought to strip back buildings to their bare essentials.

Mies and many of his Modernist peers advocated the abolition of the superfluous, arguing that ornamentation was a distraction from the beauty of structural rationality, or — worse still — an unethical symbol of extravagance.

Of course, as with any ideological action, there is a reaction, and this is where American architect Robert Venturi came in. Together with his wife Denise Scott Brown, the late Robert Venturi strove to rewrite the book (sometimes quite literally) on modern architectural design, challenging the principles of the Modernist movement with experimentation and witty provocation.

Venturi pinpointed Mies’ sound bite as a key source of influence and countered with his own, simultaneously playful and cutting in its candor: “Less is a bore.”

Venturi’s instantly memorable quote — its fame perhaps only surpassed by Mies’ oxymoronic original — became the mantra for an entire architectural movement. Postmodernism ushered in an age of warmer architecture, buildings full of character that displayed a greater sensitivity toward context, urban landscapes ingrained with more humor and humility than the earnest monuments of 20th-century Modernism.

... For [Venturi], this was the architecture of gentle anarchy, of free-spirited optimism, of unbridled joy." ( 3 )

[darquitectura]

Charles Moore, Piazza d’Italia, 1976-1979

[garadinervi]

Howardena Pindell, Rope/Fire/Water, (digital video, 16min), (still), 2020 [commissioned by The Shed, New York, NY. Garth Greenan Gallery, New York, NY and Victoria Miro, London and Venezia. © Howardena Pindell. Photo: © Charles Moore/Premium Archive via Getty Images]. From: Howardena Pindell: ‘Rope/Fire/Water’, Organized by Adeze Wilford, The Shed, New York, NY, October 16, 2020 – March 28, 2021

[doomandgloomfromthetomb]

John Sinclair Presents Detroit Artists Workshop: Community, Jazz and Art in the Motor City, 1965-1981

You probably know John Sinclair's name from his status as a legendary Detroit activist and MC5 manager. But he also worked with trumpeter Charles Moore to put on a wide variety of Detroit Artists Workshop shows that highlighted some of the best local jazz talent. This outstanding new compilation gives us a glimpse of what went down over the years — some familiar names here (it kicks off with Donald Byrd playing a marvelously moody version of "Cristo Redentor") and some less familiar names (organist Lyman Woodard sounds fantastic). It's all killer and it all hangs together nicely, in spite of the differing styles and eras on display. We're late in the game, but this one is definitely one of the best archival hauls of 2022. Hopefully, there's more to come from the Workshop.

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[onlylonelylatino]

Supergirl by Phil Jimenez

[hislopchino]

Ian Hislop, Nicholas Coleridge and Charles Moore reading their respective publications, Private Eye, Harpers And Queen and The Spectator, September 1987.

Photo by David Montgomery

[teadocs]

Charlie Moore (he/him or they/them) - Character Profile 20/?

Birthday: August 5th, 2003

Height: 5′7

Favourite Song: Tangled Up In Me by Skye Sweetnam

Random Fact: The middle child of 5 siblings, all of which have different claims to internet fame.

[dereave]

Orinda House (also known as “Moore House” / Charles W. Moore / San Francisco, California / 1962 

[obsessedbyneon]

Charles Moore architecture, 1982

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[archiveofaffinities]

Charles Moore, Piazza d' Italia, New Orleans, 1974-1978

[eksopolitiikka]

Kirkpatrick, AARO, Project Mogul ja Moore

kirjoittanut Kevin Randle Perjantaina Coast-to-Coast AM:n UFO-päivityksessäni mainitsin artikkelin, jonka on kirjoittanut AARO:n entinen johtaja, tohtori Sean Kirkpatrick, joka oli rustannut jonkinlaisen paasauksen ajastaan AARO:ssa. Hänen artikkelistaan kävi selvästi ilmi, että hän oli avaruusolentojen vierailujen vastustaja. UFO- tai tässä tapauksessa UAP-tutkimuksesta vastaavat henkilöt eivät ole koskaan pitäneet aiheesta ja olivat ennakkoluulottomasti vastaan ajatusta avaruusolentojen vierailusta. […] https://eksopolitiikka.fi/eksopolitiikka/kirkpatrick-aaro-project-mogul-ja-moore/