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A two-volume boxset facsimile of the first printing of Complexity and Contradiction paired with a compendium of new scholarship on and around Robert Venturi’s seminal treatise.
First published in 1966, this remarkable book by Robert Venturi has become an essential document in architectural literature. This two-volume boxed set presents a facsimile of the first printing of Complexity and Contradiction paired with a compendium of new scholarship on and around Venturi’s seminal treatise. Ten essays and a selection of original papers – introduced at a three-day international conference co-organized by MoMA to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the book – address diverse issues, such as the book’s relationship to Venturi’s own built oeuvre and its significance in the contemporary landscape. Together, these volumes expand the horizons of Venturi’s original ideas on creating and experiencing architecture.
At the peak of the 1968/69 students' riots at American
Universities, Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown, together with
Steven Izenour, pursued their Design and Research Studio on the
topic of Las Vegas at Yale School of Architecture. The results of
this were condensed into the book Learning from Las Vegas that
became a classic almost instantly upon its first publication in
1972. The treatise excited the 1970s architecture world and has
remained influential to architects, teachers and theoreticians to
the present day. Some forty years later, Eyes that Saw:
Architecture after Las Vegas offers a richly illustrated collection
of essays by renowned scholars of art and architectural history,
eminent architects, and artists, investigating Learning from Las
Vegas and its heritage from various perspectives. Each chapter
builds on the knowledge of the radical influence it had on
architecture and urban design, visual art, and even on history more
generally. Published alongside are documents from the Venturi,
Scott Brown & Associates Archive at the University of
Pennsylvania, as well as an illustrated chronology of the resonance
in international media following the publication of Learning from
Las Vegas in 1972.
Until now, Emil Jauch (1911-1962) has been a little-known
protagonist of Swiss post-war architecture. Shaped by the
Scandinavian Modernity of the 1930s, his buildings are
characterised by a remarkable sensitivity. This book demonstrates
the Lucerne architect's empathetic design method by presenting his
constructed school buildings. The publication describes the
architect's life and work in three chapters, recognising his
achievements in school building and classifying them within the
European context of a humanising functionalism.
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Transposition (English, German, Paperback)
Christian Kathriner, Davide Cascio; Designed by Pascal Storz; Text written by Jorg H. Gleiter, Robert Suckale, …
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Until now, Emil Jauch (1911-1962) has been a little-known
protagonist of Swiss post-war architecture. Shaped by the
Scandinavian Modernity of the 1930s, his buildings are
characterised by a remarkable sensitivity. This book demonstrates
the Lucerne architect's empathetic design method by presenting his
constructed school buildings. The publication describes the
architect's life and work in three chapters, recognising his
achievements in school building and classifying them within the
European context of a humanising functionalism. Text in German.
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