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Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st ed. ; xi, 291 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cm ; ISBN 9780821221679, 0821221671 ; OCLC 33160882 LCCN 95039905 LC NA737.M65 K45 1996 Dewey 720/.92 ; blue cloth in color photographic dustjacket ; Contents: Magic, wonder, and charm : the halcyon years -- Foundations -- Beginnings -- Princeton and Louis Kahn -- MLTW and the Sea Ranch -- Place making and cities -- Architecture in a time of questioning -- Habitation and house making -- Centerbrook -- Involving people -- My own houses -- Urban innovations -- Water and stone -- Moore Ruble Yudell -- Soane, Schinkel, and Jefferson -- The world as a garden -- Moore / Andersson -- A fading century -- Principles and enthusiasms ; "A Bulfinch Press book." ; Includes index ; Charles W. Moore created hundreds of buildings and outdoor spaces all over the world, including homes, museums, churches and office blocks. This text examines his work and explores what it means to inhabit and why it is vital to craft and make cities with care.; "The life of one of this century's preeminent American architects, whose ebullient personality and jazzy, eclectic style left an enduring legacy, is captured in these pages. Charles Moore (1925-1993) was a maverick genius, a gregarious pied piper who moved from one university to the next, establishing architectural firms at each new locale and overseeing projects all over the world - including, most famously, Sea Ranch in California and the fantastical Piazza d'Italia in New Orleans. Combining whimsy and rigor, high art and low, the ordinary and the ornate, his buildings and other projects are fresh, witty, surprising, unconventional - and always appealing human-scaled. Ever open to new influences - from Alvar Aalto and Frank Lloyd Wright to Paul Klee, feng-shui, Balinese villages, chaos theory, and the villas of Palladio - Moore himself exerted enormous influence on a whole generation of American architects. Most remarkable is the fact that Moore was as expressive with words as he was with building materials, making his posthumous writings a great addition not only to the literature on architecture but to twentieth-century American culture as well."--Book jacket ; FINE/FINE. Book.…