Charles W. Moore *57
CHARLES MOORE, among the best-known archicects in the U.S., passed away at his home in Austin Dec. 18, 1993, after a long illness. He got his bachelor's degree at the Univ. of Michigan, briefly joined the Univ. of Utah faculty as an assistant professor, then came to Princeton to teach and to study architectural history.
From 1962-65, he was department chair at U.C.Berkeley and became a founding partner of Moore Lyndon Turnbull Whitaker, He participated in the design of Sea Ranch, an internationally renowned group of condominiums on the Pacific Coast north of San Francisco. Moore went to Yale as dean in 1970 and helped found two more architectural firms. The years 1976 and 1984 found him moving again, first to L.A. and then to Austin, where he also founded firms,
Throughout his career, he combined academic responsibilities with those of architect, designer, writer, and lecturer. We extend our sympathy to his family and friends.
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Charles W. Moore *57 received two degrees at Princeton, an MFA in architecture and a Ph.D. He would go on to be one of the seminal thinkers in architecture of the late 20th century. Moore was not only the head of the architecture department at UC Berkeley. He would serve as dean of the School of Architecture at Yale and also as department head of architecture at UCLA and University of Texas at Austin.
His legacy of work is wide and includes The Sea Ranch in Northern California, a work of great influence on how architecture and landscape can work together in harmony. His many books on architecture and landscape are considered classics of architectural education.