You Have to Pay for the Public Life: Selected Essays

by Charles W. Moore; Kevin Keim (Ed.)

• ISBN13: 9780262133739
• ISBN10: 0262133733
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-04-23
• Publisher: Mit Pr

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xxvii
New Hope for Local Art	p. 1
Gospel According to Wright	p. 3
The Shapes of Our Time	p. 6
Emergency Surgery Was Necessary	p. 8
Environment and Industry	p. 9
Commentary for Princeton's Beaux Arts and Its New Academicism	p. 21
The Restoration of Old Monterey	p. 23
The Architecture of Water	p. 28
Plaster in Architecture	p. 37
Review of Louis I. Kahn: L'uomo, il maestro and What Will Be Has Always Been	p. 59
Hadrian's Villa	p. 61
Sagamore	p. 80
Toward Making Places	p. 88
Review of The Earth, the Temple and the Gods, by Vincent Scully	p. 108
You Have to Pay for the Public Life	p. 111
Unposed Questions	p. 143
Ghirardelli Square	p. 146
The Cannery: How It Looks to a Critic	p. 148
Plug It In, Rameses, and See if It Lights Up, Because We Aren't Going to Keep It Unless It Works	p. 151
Eleven Agonies and One Euphoria	p. 162
Interview with John Wesley Cook and Heinrich Klotz	p. 167
Edifice Rex	p. 208
Schindler: Vulnerable and Powerful	p. 211
In Similar States of Undress	p. 214
Learning from Adam's House	p. 218
From The Yale Mathematics Building Competition	p. 220
Southernness	p. 227
Architecture and Fairy Tales	p. 239
Impressions of Japanese Architecture	p. 279
Scully's Revenge	p. 283
Review of Selected Drawings: H. H. Richardson and His Office	p. 285
The Master of Allusion: Sir John Soane	p. 287
Creating of Place	p. 292
Planning the Hood Museum of Art	p. 302
Ten Years Later	p. 308
For Don Canty	p. 312
Reflections of a Less Critical Regionalism and Other Burdensome Matters	p. 314
Interview with Leon Luxemburg	p. 322
The Qualities of Quality	p. 332
Hispanic Lecture	p. 337
Soane, Schinkel, and Jefferson	p. 366
Triple Threat Heritage (Inspiration for a New Architecture)	p. 378
Foreword to The Texas Rangers	p. 385
Index	p. 389
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