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Architecture As Signs and Systems: For a Mannerist Timeby Robert Venturi , Denise Scott BrownISBN 0674015711 (0-674-01571-1)
Hardcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Architecture As Signs and Systems: For a Mannerist Time'Book summary:Robert Venturi exploded onto the architectural scene in 1966 with a radical call to arms in Complexity and Contradiction. Further accolades and outrage ensued in 1972 when Venturi and Denise Scott Brown (along with Steven Izenour) analyzed the Las Vegas strip as an archetype in Learning from Las Vegas. Now, for the first time, these two observer-designer-theorists turn their iconoclastic vision onto their own remarkable partnership and the rule-breaking architecture it has informed.
The views of Venturi and Scott Brown have influenced architects worldwide for nearly half a century. Pluralism and multiculturalism; symbolism and iconography; popular culture and the everyday landscape; generic building and electronic communication are among the many ideas they have championed. Here, they present both a fascinating retrospective of their life work and a definitive statement of its theoretical underpinnings.
Accessible, informative, and beautifully illustrated, Architecture as Signs and Systems is a must for students of architecture and urban planning, as well as anyone intrigued by these seminal cultural figures. Venturi and Scott Brown have devoted their professional lives to broadening our view of the built world and enlarging the purview of practitioners within it. By looking backward over their own life work, they discover signs and systems that point forward, toward a humane Mannerist architecture for a complex, multicultural society.
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The Architecture of Robert Venturiby Robert Venturi , Vincent Joseph Scully, Christopher Curtis MeadISBN 0826311202 (0-8263-1120-2)
Hardcover, University of New Mexico Press
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The Beaux-Arts Tradition in French Architectureby Robert Venturi , Vincent Joseph Scully, Christopher Curtis MeadISBN 069110106X (0-691-10106-X)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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Complexity and Contradictionby Robert VenturiISBN 0870702823 (0-87070-282-3)
Softcover, Museum of Modern Art
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Complexity and Contradiction in Architectureby Robert VenturiISBN 0810960230 (0-8109-6023-0)
Softcover, Distributed Art Pub Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture'Book summary:First published in 1966, and since translated into 16 languages, this remarkable book has become an essential document in architectural literature. 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. Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture was the winner of the Classic Book Award at the AIA's Seventh Annual International Architecture Book Awards. [via]
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- Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture: ISBN 0851391117 (0-85139-111-7)
Softcover, Elsevier Science & Technology - Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture: ISBN 0870702815 (0-87070-281-5)
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Iconography and Electronics upon a Generic Architecture: A View from the Drafting Roomby Robert VenturiISBN 0262720299 (0-262-72029-9)
Softcover, Mit Pr
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An Industrious Art: Innovation in Pattern & Print at the Fabric Workshopby Robert VenturiISBN 0393030571 (0-393-03057-1)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Learning from La Jolla: Robert Venturi Remakes a Museum in the Precinct of Irving Gillby Robert VenturiISBN 0934418470 (0-934418-47-0)
Softcover, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego
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Learning from Las Vegasby Robert Venturi , Steven Izenour, Denise Scott BrownISBN 0262220156 (0-262-22015-6)
Hardcover, MIT Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Learning from Las Vegas'Book summary:Here is a plea for proper architectural humanity and humility as well as a plan for accommodating the desires and values of ordinary people who are too often being dragged along on architectural ego trips and uplift programs. It is also realistic examination of the American vernacular environment-as-it-is and a reexamination of the goal of architecture and the role of the architect.
Learning from Las Vegas is addressed both to directly interested partiesarchitects and plannersand to the fragmented majoritythe innocent bypassers who get gas at a nonpseudocolonial filling station in order to drive home to some architect's monolithic superbrutal apartmented self-monument. And whether they are producers or consumers of buildings and cities, readers will discover in this book a finely argued development of ideas illuminated by numerous and varied illustrations. The book is a delight which will induce either a burst of affirmation or a splendid rage.
Venturi, Ms. Brown, and Izenour write that the lessons of Las Vegas for architects of today are as relevant as those of classical Rome were to the past century. Their book is divided into three parts. The first is an illustrated study of the iconography and symbolism of Las Vegas, with special attention to the Las Vegas "Strip"the road leading from the airport to downtownwhich leads to a head-on defense of automobile dominance and what denigrators call "urban sprawl."
The middle part generalizes this viewpoint, showing by historical example how the Modern movement has led to an architecture of the Heroic and the Original. The authors prescribe what they believe is an urgently needed antidote: a new modesty, an architectural populism, and an acceptance of the Ugly and the Ordinary.
The last part of the book illustrates how the theory is translated into reality: it presents the projects undertaken over the past several years by the firm of which the authors are members, Venturi and Rauch.
Robert Venturi, writing about today's architect, states, "I feel the role of prima donna culture hero, even in its modern form as prima donna anticulture antihero, is a late Romantic theme as obsolete for the architect and for the complex interdependencies of architectural practice today as is the 'heroic and original' building for architecture. An architect strong on his own feet does not need this illusory support at the expense of other architects...." The challenge is clear and forthright. Articles based on earlier versions of material in this book have already caused a great deal of controversy and rethinking. In writing the lexicon of vernacular architecture with an American accent, the authors have been denounced by some established professionals as nonarchitects, even anti-architects. But at the present uncertain point in the development of the Modern movement, it's a useful controversy that could result in a firmer sense of future direction and closer accommodation to social realities. [via]More editions of Learning from Las Vegas:
Learning from Las Vegas: The Forgotten Symbolism of Architectural Formby Robert VenturiISBN 026272006X (0-262-72006-X)
Softcover, Mit Pr
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Mother's House: The Evolution of Vanna Venturi's House in Chestnut Hillby Robert VenturiISBN 0847811425 (0-8478-1142-5)
Softcover, Rizzoli Intl Pubns
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Out of the Ordinary: Architecture, Urbanism, Designby David B. Brownlee, David G. De Long, Robert Venturi , Kathryn B. Hiesinger, Denise Scott BrownISBN 0876331495 (0-87633-149-5)
Softcover, Philadelphia Museum of Art
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Out of the Ordinary: Architecture/Urbanism/Designby Kathryn B. Hiesinger, David G. De Long, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, Heinz Architectural Center, Robert Venturi , David Bruce Brownlee, Denise Scott BrownISBN 0300089953 (0-300-08995-3)
Hardcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Out of the Ordinary: Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown and Associates Architecture, Urbanism, Designby Kathryn B. Hiesinger, David G. De Long, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, Heinz Architectural Center, Robert Venturi , David Bruce Brownlee, Denise Scott BrownISBN 0876331487 (0-87633-148-7)
Softcover, Philadelphia Museum of Art
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Two Responses to Some Immediate Issuesby Robert VenturiISBN 0884540707 (0-88454-070-7)
Softcover, Univ Pennsylvania Inst of
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A View from the Campidoglio: Selected Essays 1953-1984by Robert Venturi , Peter Arnell, Ted Bickford, Denise Scott Brown, Catherine BergartISBN 0064301397 (0-06-430139-7)
Softcover, Harper & Row
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Viva Las Vegas: After Hours Architectureby Robert Venturi , Peter Arnell, Ted Bickford, Denise Scott Brown, Catherine BergartISBN 081180111X (0-8118-0111-X)
Softcover, Chronicle Books Llc
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