Main entry:

Venturi, Robert.

Title & Author:

A view from the Campidoglio : selected essays, 1953-1984 / Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown ; edited by Peter Arnell, Ted Bickford, Catherine Bergart.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication:

New York : Harper & Row, ©1984.

Description:

154 pages : illustrations ; 23 x 27 cm.

Series:

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Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 127-154).
The Campidoglio: a case study -- A billdingboard involving movies, relics, and space -- Learning from Lutyens: reply to Alison and Peter Smithson -- "leading from the rear": reply to Martin Pawley -- Learning from Pop -- Pop off: reply to Kenneth Frampton -- Some houses of ill-repute -- Functionalism, yes, but ... -- Complexity and contradiction in the work of Furness -- Plain and fancy architecture by Cass Gilbert and the additions to the Allen Memorial Art Museum by Venturi and Rauch, at Oberlin -- Alvar Aalto -- A definition of architecture as shelter with decoration on it, and another plea for symbolism of the ordinary in architecture -- Learning the wrong lessons from the Beaux-arts -- Learning the right lessons from the Beaux-arts -- Il proprio vocabolario, four houses for Gran bazaar -- The RIBA annual discourse -- Diversity, relevance and representation in historicism, or Plus ca change ... plus a plea for pattern all over architecture with a postscript on my mother's house.

Summary:

These seventeen essays span thirty-two years in the careers of Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown. In these careers one can see the inextricable blending of the building of buildings and the building of words. They "look, analyze, synthesize through writing, synthesize through design, then look again." Robert Venturi's Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture, published in 1966, has been acknowledged as the most important thinking and writing on architecture since Le Corbusier. It provided a theoretical base for architects to transform architectural design from Modern to contemporary. A leading exponent of the Postmodern, the firm of Venturi, Rauch and Scott Brown has been in the forefront of new approaches in architecture and design, combining traditional with modern. And their writing has been viewed as "brilliant and liberating." Paul Goldberger, in The New York Times, says of Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown: "They merge a kind of childlike delight with an adult's ironic sensibility, bringing to architecture an attitude not altogether different from that which Lewis Carroll brought to literature." -- from book cover.

ISBN:

0064388514
9780064388511
0064301397 (pbk.)
9780064301398 (pbk.)

Subject:

Venturi, Robert.
Scott Brown, Denise 1931-
Venturi, Robert 1925-2018
Scott Brown, Denise.
Architecture Themes, motives.
Architecture, Modern 20th century Themes, motives.
Architecture Thèmes, motifs.
Architecture 20e siècle Thèmes, motifs.
Architecture, Modern Themes, motives.
Bouwkunst.
Arquitetura (Ensaios)
Buildings Architectural design

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Scott Brown, Denise, 1931-
Arnell, Peter.
Bickford, Ted.
Bergart, Catherine.
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Holdings:

Location: Library main 140963
Call No.: PO14675; ID:85-B26111
Status: Available