PLACENOTES is a travel guide that seeks to lead people to places that truly matter.

 

PLACENOTES by-passes all of the ordinary, mass-produced places that now surround us.  We guide you instead to the places that move, inspire, and amuse us, to places that linger in our memories and imagination.

 

The guide was inspired by Charles Moore's sly observation that "the best test of architecture might be if people send postcards of your building."

 

PLACENOTES started in print—a sturdy, magnetically-sealed box of cards.

 

But now, we are forging ahead with a fully digital version for both smartphones and tablets.

Kevin Keim, the Director of the Charles Moore Foundation, invented PLACENOTES.

 

He has written and photographed 13 print editions, and he has designed the new PLACENOTES digital platform.

THANK YOU

 

The Houston Endowment

 

Ed Bass

The Meadows Foundation

The McDermott Foundation

Susan Vaughn Foundation

Stillwater Foundation

HINES

Architecture Foundation of Oregon

Suzanne Deal Booth and David G. Booth

Centerbrook Architects & Planners

Visit Pittsburgh

Virginia Lebermann & Fairfax Dorn

Willard Hanzlik

The Graham Foundation

Charles Moore Foundation

 

2102 Quarry Road

Austin, Texas  78703

 

www.charlesmoore.org

 

Are you interested in a PLACENOTES title for your city, organization, or special place?

 

Give us a call or email.

 

(512) 220-7923

director@charlesmoore.org

Life Takes Place

 

Where would we be without good places?

 

Good places matter.

 

As everywhere looks more and more like nowhere,

we lead you to places that make you feel to be somewhere.

 

Mind your place.

 

We won't lead you just anywhere,

but we will lead you down a garden path.