(b Benton Harbor, MI, 31 Oct 1925). American architect and teacher. He studied architecture at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, from 1942 to 1947 (BArch, 1947). He then practised architecture in California (1947-9 and 1954-5), travelled in Europe and the Near East (1949-50), taught at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City (1950-52), and served in the US Army in Japan and Korea (1952-4). In 1956 Moore received the degree of MFA from Princeton University, NJ, and went on to earn a PhD (1957) there. After teaching for one year at Princeton (1958-9), he became an Associate Professor at the University of California at Berkeley (1959-62) and then chairman of its Department of Architecture (1962-5). In 1962, together with architects Richard Whitaker, Donlyn Lyndon (b 1936) and William Turnbull (1935-97), he founded the firm MLTW, within which he produced his best work in the 1960s and 1970s.

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