Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture

Venturi, Robert; Scully, Vincent (Introduction by)

ISBN 10: 0870702823 / ISBN 13: 9780870702822

Published by Museum of Modern Art; New York Graphic Society, New York, 1977

About this Item

132 pages, illustrations; 23 x 29 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. Light shelfwear to wraps, age toning. *** The pioneering document on post-modern architecture. *** CONTENTS: Nonstraightforward architecture: a gentle manifesto; Complexity and contradiction vs. simplification or picturesqueness; Ambiguity; Contradictory levels: the phenomenon of "Both-And" in architecture; Contradictory levels continued: the double-functioning element; Accommodation and the limitations of order: the conventional element; Contradiction adapted; Contradiction juxtaposed; The inside and the outside; The obligation toward the difficult whole. Size: Oblong.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture
• Publisher: Museum of Modern Art; New York Graphic Society, New York
• Publication Date: 1977
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0870702823
• ISBN 13: 9780870702822
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: 2nd.
• Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Movements::Post-Modernism
  • XL: Extra Large
  • Architecture::Architects
  • Architecture::Criticism

About this title

Synopsis

First published in 1966, and since translated into 16 languages, this remarkable book has become an essential document of architectural literature. A "gentle manifesto for a nonstraightforward architecture," Venturi’s Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture expresses in the most compelling and original terms the postmodern rebellion against the purism of modernism. Three hundred and fifty architectural photographs serve as historical comparisons and illuminate the author's ideas on creating and experiencing architecture. Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture was the winner of the Classic Book Award at the AIA's Seventh Annual International Architecture Book Awards.

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.