In 1978, when the piazza went up in downtown New Orleans, urbane critics were quick to decipher the architectural in-jokes for those in the derriere-garde. They elucidated the “concentrical hemicyclical” colonnades painted bright yellow, ochre, and red. They gushed over the esoteric water features—”wetopes,” Moore called them. And they winked knowingly at twin cartouches of Moore’s benevolent face on an arch above the piazza’s St. Joseph’s Fountain. Photo captured by E. Olson.