Title & Author:

The difficult whole : a reference book on Robert Venturi, John Rauch and Denise Scott Brown / edited by Kersten Geers, Jelena Pančevac, Andrea Zanderigo.

Publication:

Zürich : Park Books, [2016]
©2016

Description:

216 pages : illustrations (some color), plans ; 31 cm

Notes:
The difficult whole -- Office ambience 1959-1989 -- Beach House -- Guild House -- North Penn Visiting Nurse Association Building -- Vanna Venturi House -- Meiss House -- Haas Garage -- Three buildings for a town in Ohio -- Frug House -- Varga-Brigio Medical Office Building -- Fire Station Number 4 -- National College Football Hall of Fame -- Lieb House -- Dixwell Fire Station -- Transportation Square Office Building -- Hersey House -- Wike House -- Humanities Building -- Social Sciences Building -- Trubek and Wislocki houses -- Brant House -- Best products -- BASCO -- ISI Headquarters -- Gordon Wu Hall -- Khulafa Street building -- Lewis Thomas Laboratory -- Clinical Research Building -- Sainsbury Wing -- Nineteen Observations on Venturi's architecture -- From the difficult order toward the difficult whole.

Summary:

In the 1960s, American architect Robert Venturi made a case for the difficult whole, opposing mainstream modern architecture that ignores all the intricacies of life and produces pure space, or "easy unity". The architecture Venturi was aiming for embraces diversities, inevitable in any project. This new book, edited by Architecture Without Content, a research group at Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne's School of Architecture, offers a fresh analysis and a thorough re-evaluation of Venturi s idea of "the difficult whole" as both a looking glass and a possible tool for architecture today. Through a radical re-reading of found material from the Venturi Scott Brown archives, the editors seek to propose a credible alternative to contemporary architectural discourse. Its format combines the ambiguity of interpretation with the factual material, keeping the precision of the argument. This elusive position is elaborated in essays, complemented by interviews with Kazunari Sakamoto and Alvaro Siza.Around 35 projects by Venturi Scott Brown, and also by Alvaro Siza and James Stirling, form a visual narrative with original plans and sections and other archive material as well as new perspective images and photographs especially produced for this book.

ISBN:

9783906027845 (cloth ; hardbound)
3906027848 (cloth ; hardbound)

Subject:

Venturi, Robert Catalogs.
Venturi, Robert Criticism and interpretation.
Scott Brown, Denise, 1931- Criticism and interpretation.
Rauch, John K., 1930- Criticism and interpretation.
Venturi, Robert.
Scott Brown, Denise, 1931-
Rauch, John K., 1930-
Venturi, Robert 1925-2018
Rauch, John 1930-
Scott Brown, Denise 1931-
Venturi, Robert, (1925- ...)
Rauch, John.
Scott Brown, Denise, (1931- ...)
Venturi, Rauch, and Scott Brown Catalogs.
Venturi and Rauch Catalogs.
Venturi, Rauch, and Scott Brown.
Venturi and Rauch.
Venturi Scott Brown and associates.
Architecture Philosophy.
Architecture, Modern 20th century Catalogs.
Architecture 20e siècle Catalogues.
Architecture Philosophie.
Architecture, Modern Catalogs. 20th century.
Architecture, Modern

Form/genre:

catalogs (documents)
Catalogs
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Catalogues.

Added entries:

Geers, Kersten, 1975- editor.
Pančevac, Jelena, editor.
Zanderigo, Andrea, editor.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 293014
Call No.: BIB 237611
Status: Available