Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture - Softcover

Robert Venturi

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0851391117 ISBN 13: 9780851391113

Publisher: Architectural Press, 1977

Synopsis

This brilliant, liberating book provided architects and critics alike with more realistic and effective weapons, so that the breadth and relevance which the architectural dialogue has since achieved were largely initiated by it.

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About the Author

Robert Venturi is a partner in the firm of Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates, Inc., Philadelphia. He has taught at Yale University and the University of Pennsylvania, and was a Fellow and later Architect in Residence at the American Academy in Rome. His writing, teaching, and architectural work have had a decisive influence on the younger generation of architects throughout the world. Venturi is also the author of Iconography and Electronics Upon a Generic Architecture and, with Denise Scott Brown and Steven Izenour, Learning from Las Vegas.

Edition details

• Publisher: Architectural Press
• Publication date: 1977
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0851391117
• ISBN 13: 9780851391113
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 136