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Moore "mixed high architecture and high camp with gleeful abandon" (Filler 52). When he died in 1993 of a heart attack at age 68, friends and admirers praised his work and accomplishments saying that he left a "living legacy" in the thousands of architects he trained and inspired. He was also described as the most influential architecture professor (most notably Yale for ten years and the University of California at Los Angeles) of his generation. "Unlike many other …

…was Moore's last major work. He dies shortly after construction began. Architectural critics later claimed that there could be no better memorial or statement of Moore's achievement than that building. Again, quoting from The New York Times, "For here all the joyful energy of Moore at his best is present, but something else as well, something just a touch more sober, and it provides an essential insight into what Charles Moore's true priorities were." (PG).