Steven A. Moore, Ph.D., RA

Steven A. Moore (1945-2023) was the Bartlett Cocke Professor Emeritus of Architecture and Planning at the University of Texas at Austin.

Bio: “In May 2017 I stepped down from teaching organized classes but maintain a full research program from my home on Great Diamond Island in Maine. I received my undergraduate degree in architecture at Syracuse University, my Ph.D. at Texas A&M University, and am a Fellow of the National Endowment for the Arts, a Loeb Fellow of the Harvard Graduate School of Design, and received an Individual Scholar Award from the National Science Foundation. Early in my career, I practiced architecture as the design principal of Moore/Weinrich Architects in Maine (1972-1992) and received numerous regional and national awards for design distinction. In 1993, after twenty years of practice, I returned to graduate school to pursue a Ph.D. in Science and Technology Studies (STS). In 1999 I was appointed Director of the graduate program in Sustainable Design at The University of Texas at Austin. In 2001 I co-founded the UT Center for Sustainable Development and in 2005 I founded the Graduate Portfolio Program in Sustainability. I have published articles in Center, the Journal of Architectural Education (JAE), the Journal of Architecture (JOA), the Design Book Review (DBR), Building Research and Information (BRI), Journal of the American Planning Association (JAPA), and Architecture Research Quarterly (arq).

My books include; Technology and Place: Sustainable Architecture and the Blueprint Farm (UT Press, 2001); Sustainable Architectures: Natures and Cultures in Europe and North America, co-edited with Simon Guy (Routledge/Spon, 2005); Philosophy of Design: From Engineering to Architecture, Co-edited with Peter Kroes, Andrew Light, and Pieter Vermass (Springer, 2007); and Alternative Routes to the Sustainable City: Austin, Curitiba and Frankfurt (Rowman & Littlefield, 2007). With Barbara B. Wilson I published Questioning Architectural Judgement (Routledge 2014). Pragmatic Sustainability, an interdisciplinary compendium which I edited, was first published by Routledge in 2010 and then thoroughly revised and re-published in 2015. I am now at work on Facts Migrate: A Maine Memoir of Infrastructure – an accessible work of creative nonfiction.

My written work is thoroughly transdisciplinary in nature--meaning that I draw upon my experience as a practicing architect and the literature of several related fields including Science and Technology Studies (STS), the philosophy of technology, geography, architecture, and planning. These multiple sources are necessary, in my view, to both study and alter the built world.”