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Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture

Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture more books like this

by Robert Venturi

Foreword by Arthur Drexler. Introduction by Vincent Scully.

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Learning from Las Vegas REV Ed

Learning from Las Vegas REV Ed more books like this

by Robert Venturi, Steven Azenour, Steven Izenour

Venturi and Scott Brown argue, in this influential book, that the architecture of Las Vegas is highly effective because it communicates by way of flamboyant (and informative) signs rather than by the shapes of its buildings. Most of the buildings, they point out, are "decorated sheds." And they draw attention to similar buildings throughout the ...

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Iconography and Electronics Upon a Generic Architecture: A View from the Drafting Room

Iconography and Electronics Upon a Generic Architecture: A View from the Drafting Room more books like this

by Robert Venturi

Venturi, who along with his partner, Denise Scott Brown, has made the vulgar acceptable and found virtue in the commercial, the kitsch, and the ordinary, is repected equally as a theorist and an architect who communicates his architectural ideas, formal and verbal, with grace and wit. These essays, letters, reports, lectures, manifestos, and ...

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Mother's House more books like this

by Robert Venturi, Schwartz Frederic (Editor)

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Viva Las Vegas: After-Hours Architecture

Viva Las Vegas: After-Hours Architecture more books like this

by Alan Hess, Denise Scott Brown (Foreword by), Robert Venturi (Foreword by)

As eccentric and entertaining as its subject matter," Viva Las Vegas" examines the architectural and historical evolution of America's original strip city, from its modest origins as a sleepy roadside stop to the neon splendor of its extravagant "theme" hotels. Illustrated with fascinating contemporary and archival photographs, this inviting, ...

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A View from the Campidoglio: Selected Essays, 1953-1984 more books like this

by Robert Venturi

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William L. Price: Arts and Crafts to Modern Design

William L. Price: Arts and Crafts to Modern Design more books like this

by George E Thomas, Robert Venturi (Introduction by)

Price's role in shaping American architecture is uncovered in this lavishly illustrated volume, which documents the architect's complete works including over 350 hotels, houses, and pieces of furniture bringing to light this unknown American master.

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Learning from La Jolla: Robert Venturi Remakes a Museum in the Precinct of Irving Gill

Learning from La Jolla: Robert Venturi Remakes a Museum in the Precinct of Irving Gill more books like this

by Hugh Marlais Davies, Marjorie J Pierce

In 1996, the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego reopened its La Jolla facility after an expansion and renovation designed by well-known architect Robert Venturi, and his firm, Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates. This book documents this monumental design with full color photographs, and is the first to examine the nearly 100-year history of ...

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Learning from Las Vegas more books like this

by Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown, Steven Izenour

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Architecture as Signs and Systems: For a Mannerist Time

Architecture as Signs and Systems: For a Mannerist Time more books like this

by Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown

The observer-designer-theorists who analyzed the Las Vegas strip as an archetype in "Learning from Las Vegas" now turn their iconoclastic vision onto their own remarkable partnership and the rule-breaking architecture it has spawned for this fascinating retrospective of their life work.

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Taking Liberties

Taking Liberties more books like this

by David Graham (Photographer), Robert Venturi (Introduction by)

One of America's most important contemporary photographers shares his latest installment of documents in "Taking Liberties," a collection of 65 beautifully produced full-color photographs with an introduction by the prominent American architect Robert Venturi. Graham's myriad subjects include 3,000 miles of full-color roadside attractions, and a ...

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Learning from Las Vegas: The Forgotten Symbolism of Architectural Form more books like this

by Robert Venturi

Venturi and Scott Brown argue, in this influential book, that the architecture of Las Vegas is highly effective because it communicates by way of flamboyant (and informative) signs rather than by the shapes of its buildings. Most of the buildings, they point out, are "decorated sheds." And they draw attention to similar buildings throughout the ...

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Architecture of Robert Venturi more books like this

by Robert Venturi

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Complexity and contradiction in architecture. With a introd. by Vincent Scully. more books like this

by Robert Venturi, New York. Museum of Modern Art

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Aprendiendo de Las Vegas

by Robert Venturi

Aprendiendo de las Vegas surgio a partir de una saludable controversia que tuvo lugar en 1972, en la que se llego a la conclusion de que los arquitectos deberian ser mas receptivos a los gustos y valores del pueblo comun, y menos impudicos en sus erecciones como "heroe" de los monumentos elevados para si mismos. La presente edicion incluye la ...

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Two Responses to Some Immediate Issues more books like this

by Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown, University of Pennsylvania

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Komplexitat Und Widerspruch in Der Architektur more books like this

by Robert Venturi, Heinrich Klotz (Editor), Heinz Schollwc6ck (Translator)

Robert Venturi gehArt zu denjenigen Architekten, welche die Debatte A1/4ber die A"sthetik der Architektur durch Schriften und eigene Projekte wieder in Gang gebracht haben. Sein Buch ist ein PlAdoyer zur Wiederaneignung des mannigfaltigen Reichtums der Baukunst, ein Damm gegen die Sintflut von FunktionalitAt und Purismus. In einer Anmerkung zur ...

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High-Level Vision: Object Recognition and and Visual Cognition

High-Level Vision: Object Recognition and and Visual Cognition more books like this

by Robert Venturi

Venturi, who along with his partner, Denise Scott Brown, has made the vulgar acceptable and found virtue in the commercial, the kitsch, and the ordinary, is repected equally as a theorist and an architect who communicates his architectural ideas, formal and verbal, with grace and wit. These essays, letters, reports, lectures, manifestos, and ...

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Complejidad y Contradiccion En La Arquitectura more books like this

by Robert Venturi

En un intento de desmitificacion de los "sabios" presupuestos de la arquitectura oficialmente actual, Venturi contesta una serie de nociones que han guiado a los modernos disenadores de arquitectura.

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Lernen Von Las Vegas: Zur Ikonographie Und Architektursymbolik Der Geschaftsstadt more books like this

by Robert Venturi, Denise S Brown, Steven Izenour

Ausgangspunkt fA1/4r diese VerAffentlichung, die sich schon lange zu einem Klassiker der Architekturtheorie entwickelt hat, war ein Seminar an der FakultAt fA1/4r Kunst und Architektur der Yale University in Jahr 1968 mit dem Titel "Learning from Las Vegas, or Form Analysis as Design Research." Im Vorwort zur ersten Auflage heiAt es: "Mitten durch ...

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