Name: Abdullah Abdulaziz AL Ghamdi

ID # 0909448

Comparative II

1- Some islands in the Mediterranean:

2- Work of architect Charles Willard Moore:

Life and career

Moore graduated from the University of Michigan in 1947 and

earned both a Master's and a Ph.D at Princeton University in

1957, where he remained for an additional year as a post-

doctoral fellow. During this fellowship, Moore served as a

teaching assistant for Louis Kahn, the Philadelphia architect who

taught a design studio. It was also at Princeton that Moore

developed relationships with Hey fellow students Donlyn

Lyndon, William Turnbull, Jr., Richard Peters, and Hugh Hardy,

who would remain lifelong friends and collaborators. During the

Princeton years, Moore designed and built a house for his

mother in Pebble Beach, California, and worked during the

summers for architect Wallave Holm of neighboring Monterey.

Moore's Master's Thesis explored ways to preserve and

integrate Monterey's historic adobe dwellings into the fabric of

the city. His Doctoral dissertation, "Water and Architecture",

was a survey of the presence of water in shaping the experience

of place; many decades later, the dissertation became the basis

of a book with the same title.

In 1959, Moore left New Jersey and began teaching at the

University of California, Berkeley. Moore went on to become

Dean of the Yale School of Architecture from 1965 through

1970, directly after the tenure of Paul Rudolph. In 1975, he

moved to the University of California, Los Angeles where he

continued teaching (one of his students included Lem Chin).

Finally, in 1985, he became the O'Neil Ford Centennial Professor

of Architecture at the University of Texas at Austin.

His works

1- THE INFLUENTIAL SEA RANCH (1963) PLANNED COMMUNITY IN SONOMA

COUNTY, CALIFORNIA (WITH LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT LAWRENCE HALPRIN)

2- KRESGE COLLEGE (1971) AT UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA CRUZ

3- THE EXUBERANT, POSTMODERN ARCHETYPE PIAZZA D'ITALIA (1978),

AN URBAN PUBLIC PLAZA IN NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA

4- UNIVERSITY EXTENSION AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, IRVINE

5-THE BEVERLY HILLS CIVIC CENTER (1992) IN BEVERLY HILLS, CALIFORNIA

6- NATIONAL DONG HWA UNIVERSITY, HUALIEN, TAIWAN (1992)

7- THE CALIFORNIA CENTER FOR THE ARTS, ESCONDIDO IN ESCONDIDO,

CALIFORNIA (1993)

8- THE HAAS SCHOOL OF BUSINESS (1995) AT THE UNIVERSITY OF

CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY

9- LURIE TOWER AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN (1995)

10 THE PREVIEW CENTER (NOW A BANK OF AMERICA BRANCH) IN

CELEBRATION, FLORIDA (1996)

11- THE WILLIAMS COLLEGE MUSEUM OF ART ADDITION IN

WILLIAMSTOWN, MASSACHUSETTS.

12- HIS LAST WORK, THE WASHINGTON STATE HISTORY MUSEUM IN

TACOMA, WASHINGTON

3- Faculty Club University of California

Santa Barbara

“The front wall of the club,

which faces the lagoon, is

partially the result of a

controversy with the campus

architect, Charles Luckman.

When he saw our building, he

said is was unacceptable, that

it looked terrible, didn’t look

like his stuff, and had to have a

bris-soleil. He thought that

would cause us to put a screen

over it which would hide this

awful building which we had

done, and he wouldn’t have to

worry about it any more. It

swept over me in the middle of

the night, that all we have to

do is have another wall in

front of our opening, with

other holes in it. Thanks to

Charles Luckman, then came

our first free standing walls.”

(p. 188

4- The Seattle Art Museum

The Seattle Art Museum is an art

museum located in Seattle,

Washington, USA. It maintains three

major facilities: its main museum in

downtown Seattle; the Seattle Asian

Art Museum (SAAM) in Volunteer Park

on Capitol Hill, and the Olympic

Sculpture Park on the central Seattle

waterfront, which opened on January

20, 2007. Admission to the sculpture

park is always free. Admission to the

other facilities is free on the first

Thursday of each month; SAM also

offers free admission the first Saturday

of the month. And even the normal

admission is suggested, meaning that

the museum would like you to pay the

complete admission but if you can not

pay fully you can still enjoy the

museum.