Main entry:

Fisher, Fred (Frederick), 1949- author.

Title & Author:

Robert Venturi's Rome / Frederick Fisher and Stephen Harby.

Publication:

[Novato, California] : ORO Editions, [2018]
©2018

Description:

112 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 23 cm

Notes:
References and includes excerpts from the book "Complexity and contradiction in architecture" by Robert Venturi, published by the Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1966.
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction to the watercolors -- A guide to the guide -- The lay of the land -- Chapter 1. Nonstraightforward architecture: a gentle manifesto -- Chapter 2. Complexity and contradiction vs. simplification and picturesqueness -- Chapter 3. Ambiguity -- Chapter 4. Contradictory levels: the phenomenon of "both-and" in architecture ambiguity -- Chapter 5. Contradictory levels continued: the double-functioning element -- Chapter 6. Accommodation and the limitations of order: the conventional element -- Chapter 7. Contradiction adapted -- Chapter 8. Contradiction juxtaposed -- Chapter 9. The inside and the outside -- Chapter 10. The obligation toward the difficult whole.

Summary:

"Robert Venturi's Rome is a guidebook to the city of Rome seen through the eyes of Robert Venturi and re-interpreted by two subsequent Rome Prize fellows and architect, Frederick Fisher and Stephen Harby. Published in 1966, Venturi viewed architecture, landscape, and art as different manifestations of common themes. Fundamental to the development of any young architects' outlook on architecture, Venturi wrote this seminal publication following a two-year Rome Prize fellowship at the American Academy in Rome. Many buildings in Rome serve as examples that illustrate his theories, underscoring the city's profound influence on Venturi's thinking: from the Pantheon, through works by his favorite artist, Michelangelo, and on to 20th century buildings by Armando Brasini and Luigi Moretti, Venturi reveals Rom as a complex and contradictory city." -- Page 4 of cover.

ISBN:

1939621879 (paperback)
9781939621870 (paperback)

Subject:

Venturi, Robert.
Venturi, Robert 1925-
Architecture Italy Rome Guidebooks.
Church architecture Italy Rome Guidebooks.
Architecture chrétienne Italie Rome Guides.
Architecture Italie Rome Guides.
Architecture
Church architecture
Architektur
Aquarell
Architekturzeichnung
Church architecture Italy Rome. Guidebooks.
Rome (Italy) Guidebooks.
Italy Rome
Rom.

Form/genre:

Guidebooks

Added entries:

Venturi, Robert. Complexity and contradiction in architecture.
Harby, Stephen, author.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 303082
Call No.: BIB 249295
Status: Available