Charles Moore, whose exuberant and eclectic architecture made him one of the most influential and prolific practitioners of post-modern design, died yesterday at his home in Austin, Tex. He was 68.
The cause was a heart attack, his office said.
A leading figure in American architecture and architectural education for three decades, Mr. Moore strove to celebrate a sense of place with a collagelike mix of pop, historical and modernist motifs.
He achieved national recognition in 1966 with the completion of Sea Ranch, a condominium project on the California coast north of San Francisco that raised the form of the simple shed to architectural grandeur. After Sea Ranch, his buildings became more whimsical, and he went on to produce such well-known projects as the Faculty Club at the University of California at Santa Barbara (1968), designed with William Turnbull, one of the first expressions of post-modernism's eclectic sensibility, and the Piazza d'Italia in New Orleans (1978), a public plaza that is a brightly colored melange of classical elements. Practiced and Preached