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The Charles Moore Foundation

Books & Writing

Books by Charles Moore

  • The Place of Houses

    The Place of Houses

    Charles Moore, Donlyn Lyndon & Gerald Allen

    Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1974; 25th Anniversary Edition, University of California Press, 2000

    "The main premise of this book is that any one who cares enough can create a house of great worth—no anointment is required. If you care enough you just do it. You bind the goods and trappings of your life together with your dreams to make a place that is uniquely your own. In doing so you build a semblance of the world you know, adding it to the community that surrounds you."
  • Dimensions: Space, Shape & Scale in Architecture

    Dimensions: Space, Shape & Scale in Architecture

    Charles Moore & Gerald Allen

    Architectural Record Books, 1976 (?)

  • Body, Memory, and Architecture

    Body, Memory, and Architecture

    Kent C. Bloomer & Charles W. Moore

    Yale University Press, 1977

  • Home Sweet Home: American Domestic Vernacular Architecture

    Home Sweet Home: American Domestic Vernacular Architecture

    Charles Moore, Kathryn Smith & Peter Becker

    Rizzoli, 1983 (?)

  • The City Observed: Los Angeles

    The City Observed: Los Angeles

    Charles Moore, Peter Becker & Regula Campbell

    Vintage, 1984; 25th Anniversary Edition, Hennessey & Ingalls, 2000

  • The Poetics of Gardens

    The Poetics of Gardens

    Charles W. Moore, William J. Mitchell & William Turnbull, Jr.

    MIT Press, 1988

  • The Cabin, The Temple, The Trailer

    The Cabin, The Temple, The Trailer

    Charles Moore & Pamela Woodbridge

    (?)

  • Chambers for a Memory Palace

    Chambers for a Memory Palace

    Donlyn Lyndon & Charles W. Moore

    MIT Press, 1994

  • Water and Architecture

    Water and Architecture

    Charles W. Moore, photographs by Jane Lidz

    Harry N. Abrams, 1994

  • An Architectural Life: Memoirs & Memories of Charles W. Moore

    An Architectural Life: Memoirs & Memories of Charles W. Moore

    edited by Kevin P. Keim

    Bulfinch Press, 1996

  • You Have to Pay for the Public Life: Selected Essays of Charles W. Moore

    You Have to Pay for the Public Life: Selected Essays of Charles W. Moore

    edited by Kevin Keim

    MIT Press, 2001

Books About Charles Moore

  • MLTW: Moore, Lyndon, Turnbull & Whitaker

    MLTW: Moore, Lyndon, Turnbull & Whitaker

    ADA Edita, Tokyo (?)

  • Charles Moore

    Charles Moore

    GA / Contemporary Architects series (?)

  • Charles Moore: Buildings and Projects 1949–1986

    Charles Moore: Buildings and Projects 1949–1986

    edited by Eugene J. Johnson

    Rizzoli, 1986

  • a+u: Charles W. Moore

    a+u: Charles W. Moore

    A+U Publishing (?)

  • GA Houses: Charles Moore

    GA Houses: Charles Moore

    A.D.A. Edita, Tokyo (?)

  • GA Detail: Sea Ranch Condominium

    GA Detail: Sea Ranch Condominium

    A.D.A. Edita, Tokyo (?)

  • The Yale Mathematics Building Competition

    The Yale Mathematics Building Competition

    Charles W. Moore & Nicholas Pyle, editors

    Yale University Press, 1974 (?)

  • Beauty and the Beast

    Beauty and the Beast

    illustrated by Charles Moore

    Rizzoli (?)