Charles Willard Moore -
Moore "mixed high architecture and high camp with gleeful abandon" (Filler 52). When he died in 1993 of a heart attack at age 68, friends and admirers praised his work and accomplishments saying that he left a "living legacy" in the thousands of architects he trained and inspired. He was also described as the most influential architecture professor (most notably Yale for ten years and the University of California at Los Angeles) of his generation. "Unlike many other star architects he was also a great teacher, and for over forty years he imparted his vast knowledge and passionate beliefs with unparalleled intelligence, gentleness, and merriment to generations of students" (Filler-1994 52). For more than forty years, Moore shared his vision with students that there is no higher purpose for an architect than to create homes and public places that have the ability to satisfy and comfort people, as well as provide a benefit atmosphere in which one's inner life can be satisfied along with the physical need for shelter and comfort. During his career, he produced twelve books, and unlike most books on architecture written by architects, he illustrated that it was possible to have a larger vision about building other than the desire to
Moore was able to balance the demands of a college's business school with a setting that is lighter and more easy-going than any one ever associates with the academic study of business. It was Moore's last major work. He dies shortly after construction began. Architectural critics later claimed that there could be no better memorial or statement of Moore's achievement than that building. Again, quoting from The New York Times, "For here all the joyful energy of Moore at his best is present, but something else as well, something just a touch more sober, and it provides an essential insight into what Charles Moore's true priorities were." (PG). Filler also wrote a review in 1978 of one of Moore's most memorable works, St. Joseph's Fountain at the Piazza d'Italia in New Orleans, that "Great architecture tends to inspire admiration, reverence, humility, awe, and other such serious emotions, but rarely does it fill its beholders with feelings of happiness, romance, warmth, joy, and love. The same can be said of architects, and those who knew him would unhesitatingly put Moore into that second category" (Filler 1994 53). The fountain itself was once an astounding urban set-piece, in which Moore repeat the classical orders of architecture in water-
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