Robert Venturi

Editorial Reviews - Learning from Las Vegas From the Publisher Learning from Las Vegas created a healthy controversy on its appearance in 1972, calling for architects to be more receptive to the tastes and values of "common" people and less immodest in their erections of "heroic," self-aggrandizing monuments. This revision includes the full texts of Part I of the original, on the Las Vegas strip,

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

Robert Venturi's Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture and Learning from Las Vegas (the latter coauthored with Denise Scott Brown and Steven Izenour) are among the most influential books by any architect of our era -- the one celebrating complexity in architecture, the other the uses of symbolism in commercial and vernacular architecture and signage. This new collection of writings in a var

From my professional (retired architect) library. Purchased new in bookstore and never (evidently) opened! Dust jacket perfect, no markings or folded pages, etc. great "gift-able" item. If you saw this in a book store, you would not know it wasn't "brand new".

Seventeen essays by two prominent American architects examine prominent buildings of the past and present and discuss the theoretical basis for modern design

As a legend in their own time, the team of Venturi and Scott Brown have been equally affective in theory as well as practice, consistently producing books and buildings that change the course of architecture. "On Houses and Housing", through articles and project descriptions, charts the formulation of their ideas and realised buildings. It is in this complete record of a particular segment of the

The founder of the Acadia Summer Arts Program, Marion Boulton Stroud, asked Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown and Steven Izenour to design and construct houses and other structures for the camp. The architects took as inspiration Maine's indigenous architecture, such as shingle houses and lobster shacks.

Now available in its original edition along with critical commentary, Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture is the founding text of postmodernism in architecture First published in 1966, Robert Venturi’s Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture , widely considered the foundational text of postmodernism, has become an essential document in architectural theory and criticism.This ne