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| | Amazon.com: An Architectural Life: Memoirs & Memories on Charles W. Moore: Books: Kevin P. Keim,Charles Willard Moore (Site not responding. Last check: ) |
 | | Postmodernist maverick Charles W. Moore (1925-1993) was an indefatigable, globe-hopping "architectural nomadic monk" from Battle Creek, Michigan, who seldom stayed in one place for longer than two weeks, observes Keim, the architect's longtime friend and collaborator. |
 | | Rejecting the uncompromising doctrines of modernism as a Princeton grad student, and later as chair of Yale's architecture department in the mid-1960s, Moore willfully plunged into eras, cultures and styles, absorbing what he could from Piranesi, Spain's Alhambra palace, Balinese villages, chaos theory, Palladian villas, Fellini, Japanese Zen architecture. |
 | | This generously illustrated dossier, combining Moore's reminiscences, travel diary excerpts, letters and essays plus recollections by friends and collaborators, all woven together by Keim's biographical narrative, provides a surprisingly intimate portrait of a driven, irreverent innovator who cloaked his strong ego in self-deprecation and shyness. |
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