Oral history interview with Charles Willard Moore
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 4 sound cassettes. Reformatted in 2010 as 8 digital wav files. Duration is 4 hrs., 44 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Moore, Charles Willard, 1925-1993
label: Interviewer
content: Woodbridge, Sally Byrne
topic: label: Topic
content: Architecture -- California -- Los Angeles
label: Topic
content: Architects -- California -- Los Angeles -- Interviews
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: This interview is part of the Archives of American Art Oral History Program, started in 1958 to document the history of the visual arts in the United States, primarily through interviews with artists, historians, dealers, critics and others.
creator: label: Interviewee
content: Moore, Charles Willard, 1925-1993
label: Interviewer
content: Woodbridge, Sally Byrne
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Charles Willard Moore (1925-1993) was an architect from Los Angeles, Calif.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 69 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1984 Dec. 28
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.moore84
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Pages
label: Type
content: Sound recordings
label: Type
content: Interviews
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview of Charles Willard Moore conducted 1984 Dec. 28, by Sally Woodbridge, for the Archives of American Art.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Moore speaks of his childhood and family history; his education; the influence of Roger Bailey; moving to San Francisco to work; teaching architecture; his U.S. Army service; the influence of Japanese architecture; Louis Kahn's influence; his opinions of architectural education, and the changes that have occurred in it in the past two decades; the future of architecture and his hopes for it.