Séminaire #1 Hortence : Richard W. Hayes “Charles W. Moore: History and Activism”

18.11.2025 at 15h30, White Room 3d Floor, Place Flagey 19


Richard W. Hayes is an architectural historian educated at Columbia and Yale universities whose scholarship focuses on architectural education. In 2007, Hayes published The Yale Building Project: The First 40 Years, a comprehensive history of an influential programme founded by Charles W. Moore. Additional research was published in Architectural Theory Review; JSAH; Scroope: Cambridge Architectural Journal; Agency: Working with Uncertain Architectures (Routledge, 2010); Architecture School: Three Centuries of Educating Architects in North America (MIT Press, 2012); and Thinking-Making: When Architects Engage in Construction (Brussels, 2021). He is a Life Member of Clare Hall, Cambridge, and a Fellow of the American Institute of Architects.

Image credits: top: Perspective drawing by Bill Hersey of the Piazza d’Italia, New Orleans, designed by Charles Moore and the Urban Innovations Group with August Perez. Courtesy the Alexander Architectural Archives, the University of Texas at Austin; Bottom: Charles W. Moore and Yale Students Building the New Zion Community Center, 1967. © Alberto Lau.

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