Complexity Contradiction Architecture, First Edition (20 results)

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Like New. First Edition. Like new hard cover edition with like new dust jacket. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. Clean. Tight binding. No markings. 197 pages.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Stiff white wraps, lettered in red and black. Just a hint of shelf wear, essentially as issued. 3rd ptg.: 1974. 144 pp. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Fine/Fine A bright, tight, clean copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. (1966.) 8vo. 1st edition. Minor bumping to spine ends. Signifigant scraping to rear joint and front board. Minor darkening to spine and edges of boards. Slightest burnthrough to pastedowns. Lacking d.j. VG.

Oblong 4to. pp 230. Paperback copy. Very good. First U.k. Edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. The Museum of Modern Art: 1966. Octavo. Hardcover with a dust jacket. First edition. Unclipped jacket has two small closed tears. Book is near fine, jacket is very good.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Fine in gray cloth-covered boards and near fine dust jacket with light rubbing and publisher's price clip and replacement price sticker.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Minus. First Edition. cloth, hardcover in dust jacket., faint and sparse dust-spots to edges. rubbing to white dj and 3 minute edge-chips. price intact. no writing or markings. no bumps. strong binding.; 144pp., 350 illustrations. introduction by vincent scully. first edition of classic text. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First Edition, 1966. 143 pages. The Museum of Modern Art Papers on Architecture, Number 1. Introduction by Vincent Scully. First Edition of this important book by Venturi. Near Fine in grey cloth. Binding is tight. Dust jacket shows light rubbing, (which is common with this book) and very minimal signs of wear to top edge. A very nice copy. Near Fine in Very Good dust jacket.

Paperback. Condition: Fine. First Edition. A Fine copy in glossy wrappers, the paperbound issue. 135pp. Illustrated with black and white photographs. A crucial book in the evolution of architectural theory and practice. Q18988.

Trade paperback. Condition: Very good. The format is approximately 6 inches by 7.875 inches. 135, [11] pages. Illustrations (photos and drawings). This is the first of the Museum of Modern Art Papers on Architecture. Introduction by Vincent Scully. The contents include Introduction, Preface, Nonstrightforward Architecture: A Gentle Manifesto; Complexity and Contradiction vs. Simplification or Picturesqueness; Ambiguity; Contradictory Levels: The Phenomenon of :both-And: in Architecture; Contradictory Levels Continues: 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; and Works. Robert Charles Venturi Jr. (June 25, 1925 September 18, 2018) was an American architect, founding principal of the firm Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates. Together with his wife and partner, Denise Scott Brown, he helped shape the way that architects, planners and students experience and think about architecture and the built environment. Their buildings, planning, theoretical writings, and teaching have also contributed to the discourse about architecture. Venturi was awarded the Pritzker Prize in Architecture in 1991; the prize was awarded to him alone, despite a request to include his equal partner, Scott Brown. Subsequently, a group of architects attempted to get her name added retroactively to the prize, but the Pritzker Prize jury declined to do so. Venturi coined the maxim "Less is a bore", a postmodern antidote to Mies van der Rohe's famous modernist dictum "Less is more". Most of this book was written in 1962 under a grant from the Graham Foundation. Venturi was also indebted to the American Academy in Rome for the Fellowship, ten years previously, which enabled the author to live in Italy. This book was the first in a projected series of Museum of Modern Art Papers on Architecture that would be concerned with the ideas and opinions of practicing architects as well as critics and historians. "Vincent Joseph Scully Jr. (August 21, 1920 November 30, 2017) was an American art historian who was a Sterling Professor of the History of Art in Architecture at Yale University, and the author of several books on the subject. Architect Philip Johnson once described Scully as "the most influential architectural teacher ever." His lectures at Yale were known to attract casual visitors and packed houses, and regularly received standing ovations. He was also the distinguished visiting professor in architecture at the University of Miami. 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. Not many architecture books have defined a specific historical moment in the way Robert Venturi's Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture has; a book that fundamentally changed how we look at, think and talk about architecture. The architectural historian Vincent Scully's famous assessment of Venturi's treatise as 'probably the most important writing on the making of architecture since Le Corbusier's Vers une Architecture' has proven to be to the point in many ways, and few architecture books since have achieved a comparable significance in shaping the discipline's discourse. Complexity and Contradiction can in many ways be understood as an intellectual digest of Venturi's two-year tenure at the American Academy.

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good +. A tight, solid copy of the 1966 1st edition, in its less common hardback. Clean and Near Fine in a crisp, VG+ dustjacket, with mild soiling to the panels and one very small chip along the spine crown. Octavo, Introduction by Vincent Scully.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1st edition, inaugural publication of The Museum of Modern Art Papers on Architecture in 1966. The signature of James Jarrett, professor of architectural theory and Yale and CUNY, on f.f.e.p., likely his own copy. NF boards. Soiling and light chipping to dj, with small open tear to spine tail. Underline in a light hand to limited pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First printing. 143 pp; 350 illus. Original cloth. Near Fine, in near fine dust jacket (unclipped). The Museum of Modern Art Papers on Architecture 1. 'A controversial critic of the blithely functionalist and symbolically vacuous architecture of corporate modernism during the 1950s, Venturi has been considered a counterrevolutionary. He published his 'gentle manifesto,' Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture in 1966, described in the introduction by Vincent Scully to be 'probably the most important writing on the making of architecture since Le Corbusier's 'Vers Une Architecture', of 1923.' Derived from course lectures at the University of Pennsylvania, Venturi received a grant from the Graham Foundation in 1965 to aid in its completion. The book opened the way for a new appreciation of architectural history as inspiration for new designs, and made a case for 'the difficult whole' rather than the diagrammatic forms popular at the time. The book has been translated and published in 18 languages' (Wikipedia).

Hard cover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. Bin 4 (Long Case). Inscribed by Robert Venturi. First edition. Book has a slight musty smell. Jacket is lightly tanned and rubbed, with mild wear along edges. Binding is tight. Covers and pages are clean and unmarked.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. SIGNED BY ROBERT VENTURI on the front free endpaper. A very sharp copy to boot of the 1966 1st edition of this, the inaugural title in the Museum of Modern Art Papers on Architecture. Tight and VG+ (small, tasteful bookplate at the front pastedown) in a crisp, Near Fine dustjacket, with just a very mild trace of light soiling to the panels. Light pencil notes (which we believe are Robert Venturi's) at the rear endpaper. Introduction by Vincent Scully.

First edition of this essential document of architectural literature. Octavo, original gray cloth, illustrated. Boldly signed by Robert Venturi who has added a drawing of his mother's house on the dedication page. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Introduction by Vincent Scully. As Venturi's "gentle manifesto for a nonstraightforward architecture," 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" (The New York Times).

First edition of this essential document of architectural literature. Octavo, original gray cloth, illustrated. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, "To Al, Friendship and respect Bob Venturi." FineÂin a near fine dust jacket with a touch of shelfwear. As Venturi's "gentle manifesto for a nonstraightforward architecture," 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" (The New York Times).

First edition of this essential document of architectural literature. Octavo, original gray cloth, illustrated. Signed and dated by Robert Venturi on the title page. FineÂin a near fine dust jacket with a touch of shelfwear. As Venturi's "gentle manifesto for a nonstraightforward architecture," 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" (The New York Times).

VENTURI, Robert. Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture. Introduction by Vincent Scully. 143 pp. Illustrated with 350 black and white plates. 8vo., 200 x 145 mm, bound in publisher's cloth and printed dust wrapper. New York: Museum of Modern Art in association with The Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, Chicago, 1966. First edition of this landmark publication, translated into 16 languages since its first appearance in 1966. ".This remarkable book has become an essential document in 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." Dust jacket lightly soiled else a fine copy. The Museum of Modern Art Papers of Architecture 1.