Main entry:

Moos, Stanislaus von, author.

Title & Author:

Venturi, Rauch, & Scott Brown buildings and projects / Stanislaus von Moos.

Publication:

New York : Rizzoli, 1987.

Description:

336 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-327) and index.
I: The challenge of the status quo 5 points on the architecture of VRSB -- History and "common sense" -- Anatomy of a "decorated shed" -- Themes and variations -- Language games and mass media -- The city as a stage -- II: Buildings and projects, 1960-1985 -- Urban design -- Public buildings -- Commercial and office buildings -- Houses -- Housing -- Interior designs and exhibitions.
Also issued online.

Summary:

Robert Venturi, partner of the Philadelphia firm of Venturi, Rauch, and Scott Brown, is probably best known for his writing on architecture. Published during a time of growing discontent with modern architecture, Venturi's and Denise Scott Brown's writings helped to redefine architectural design by emphasizing issues like history, language, form, symbolism, and the dialectics of high and popular art. In their architectural projects Venturi and his partners have refined a clear design vocabulary through ordinary and conventional building techniques. This was demonstrated early on in the controversial Guild House, and has been artfully expressed in the more recent critically acclaimed Gordon Wu Hall, the Microbiology building at Princeton University, and in the yet-to-be-built extension to the National Gallery in London. Von Moos's text, amply illustrated, meticulously describes and catalogues the firm's evolution and work. This book should provide a valuable reference to the work of a uniquely American firm. -- from book flap.

ISBN:

0847807436
9780847807437
0847807452 (pbk.)
9780847807451 (pbk.)

Subject:

Venturi, Rauch, and Scott Brown Criticism and interpretation.
Venturi, Rauch and Scott Brown Critique et interprétation.
Venturi, Rauch, and Scott Brown.
Venturi Scott Brown and Associates.
Architecture United States History 20th century.
Architecture, Postmodern United States.
Architecture États-Unis Histoire 20e siècle.
Architecture postmoderne États-Unis.
Architecture.
Architecture, Postmodern.
Arquitetura Moderna (Est Unidos)
Architectural firms United States.
United States.
Rauch John
Scott Brown Denise 1931-
Venturi Robert

Form/genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.

Added entries:

Venturi, Rauch, and Scott Brown buildings and projects.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 30758
Call No.: ID:88-B2729
Status: Available