COMPLEXITY AND CONTRADICTION IN ARCHITECTURE
Robert Venturi
Robert Venturi: COMPLEXITY AND CONTRADICTION IN ARCHITECTURE. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1966 [MoMA Papers on Architecture No. 1]. First edition. Small quarto. Gray cloth stamped in black. Dust jacket. 144 pp. 350 blacka nd white illustrations. A very good or better copy: white jacket is very lightly soiled with one small closed tear on front panel, two small closed tears on rear panel and two tiny chips to the top edge ofthe rear panel. Book feels unread. Uncommon. 6 x 8 book with 144 pages and 350 b/w text illustrations. Introduction by Vincent Scully. Venturi's response to Mies van der Rohe's "Less is More" dictate? "Less is a bore." Venturi, a 1991 Pritzker Prize winner, has been credited with saving Modernism from itself by including a nod to history and purely decorative elements in his architectural work. He is also well known for his theoretical writings.
Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Preface
- Nonstraightforward Architecture: A Gentle Manifesto
- Complexity and Contradiction vs. Simplification and Picturesqueness
- Ambiguity
- Contradictory Levels: The Phenomenon of ³Both-And² in Architecture
- Contradictory Levels Continued: The Double-Functioning Element
- Accomodations and Limitations of Order: The Conventional Element
- Contradiction Adapted
- Contradiction Juxtaposed
- The Inside and the Outside
- The Obligation Toward the Difficult Whole
- Works
- Notes
- Photograph Credits
Includes work by Ezra Stoller, Ugo Mulas, Harry Holtzman, Sir John Soane, Alvar Aalto, Louis Kahn, Robert Venturi, Alinari, H. Roger Viollet, George Cserna, Wallace Litwin, Office of Venturi and Rauch, Leni Iselin, George Pohl, Lawrence S. Williams, Inc., William Watkins, and Rollin R. La France among many others.
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