Theorist

Charles W. Moore

1925–1993 Body, memory & architecture / practising architect

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Ritual

Details

Nationality: American

Classifications

Holder: Individual
Source of authority: Lived experience
Subject: Human centred
Mode of transmission: Text drawingApprenticeship
Knowledge type: Relational embodied
Epistemic cluster: Western philosophical

Notes

Grouped with Norberg-Schulz, Rogers and Frampton as a figure architectural phenomenology 'makes kin' of, despite the discourse's only loose relation to the philosophical phenomenology of Husserl, Bergson and Merleau-Ponty.

Connections

authored Body, Memory, and Architecture

Referenced by

Gaston Bachelard influenced

Sources

Kent C. Bloomer and Charles W. Moore. Body, Memory, and Architecture. Yale University Press, 1977.
in Crysler, Cairns & Heynen (eds), The SAGE Handbook of Architectural Theory, SAGE, 2012 — export p. 9 of 19

Cite this entry

First published May 2026Last revised Jul 2026

CLAD. "Charles W. Moore." Atlas of Architectural Thought. CLAD, 2026. https://www.cl-ad.com.au/research/atlas/theorist/charles-w-moore/. Accessed July 17, 2026.