You Have to Pay for the Public Life: Selected Essays of Charles W. Moore - Couverture rigide

Moore, Charles W.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0262133733 ISBN 13 : 9780262133739

Editeur : The MIT Press, 2001

Synopsis

Previously uncollected essays of an architect whose love of people, buildings, and nature was reflected in the places he built.

Architect Charles Moore (1925-1993) was not only celebrated for his designs; he was also an admired writer and teacher. Though he wrote clearly and passionately about places, he was perhaps unique in avoiding the tone and stance of the personal manifesto. Through his buildings, books, and travels, Moore consistently sought insights into the questions that always underlie architecture and design: What does it mean to make a place, and how do we inhabit those places? How do we continue to build upon but respect the landscape? How do we reconcile democracy and private land ownership? What is original? What is taste? What is the relationship between past and present? How do we involve inhabitants in making places? Finally, what is public life? As the world becomes smaller, and the uniqueness of places and landscapes gives way to sameness, Moore's celebration of the vernacular and of the surprising are more relevant than ever.The pieces in this book span the years 1952 to 1993 and engage a myriad of topics and movements, such as contextualism, community participation, collaboration, environmentally sensitive design, and historic preservation. The essays in this book reflect as well Moore's scholarship, humanism, urbanity, and great wit.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Charles W. Moore, one of America's best known architects, is O'Neil Ford Professor of Architecture at the University of Texas at Austin.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: The MIT Press
• Date d'édition: 2001
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0262133733
• ISBN 13: 9780262133739
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 426
• Éditeur: Keim Kevin
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