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• Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture
• Robert Venturi
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• 09 January 2020
• 9780870702822

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Review Ð Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture Æ PDF, DOC, TXT, eBook or Kindle ePUB free Nd Contradiction in Architecture expresses in the most compelling and original terms the postmodern rebellion against the purism of modernism Three hundred and fifty architectural photographs serve as historical comparisons a. Architects often speak in numinous abstractions It s what s made guys like Kahn and Carlo Scarpa and Aldo Rossi and Alvar Aalto into saints Though Venturi has many personal idiosyncrasies he isn t uite so spiritual in his approach to his work I appreciate his pragmatism in this small but sweeping survey of the relationships between architectural forms His approach is encyclopedic and his attention caroms around the globe and between poles on the timeline from the concentric temple gates at Edfu to the home he built for his mother in the suburbs of Philadelphia He writes with the passion of an erudite fanboy and you can imagine him sitting people down for drinks and preaching in uick bursts the expressive differentiation of the inside and outside spaces of Wright s Johnson Wax Building Part analysis part manifesto it reads like one of those Renaissance Humanist tomes meant to cap a scholar s lifelong study Lucky for us Venturi went on to practice for another half century producing some of the most memorable challenging historically literate works in Postmodernism Faded Glory Airline Colour Schemes of the Past compelling and original terms the postmodern rebellion against the purism of modernism Three hundred and fifty architectural photographs serve as historical The Perfect Puppy: Take Britain's Number One Puppy Care Book With You comparisons a. Architects often speak in numinous abstractions It s what s made guys like Kahn and Carlo Scarpa and Aldo Rossi and Alvar Aalto into saints Though Venturi has many personal idiosyncrasies he isn t uite so spiritual in his approach to his work I appreciate his pragmatism in this small but sweeping survey of the relationships between architectural forms His approach is encyclopedic and his attention Les profs, tome 1. Interro surprise caroms around the globe and between poles on the timeline from the "The Dog of My Nightmares: Stories Read by Texas Columnist Dave Lieber" concentric temple gates at Edfu to the home he built for his mother in the suburbs of Philadelphia He writes with the passion of an erudite fanboy and you Andy Catlett: Early Travels: A Novel can imagine him sitting people down for drinks and preaching in uick bursts the expressive differentiation of the inside and outside spaces of Wright s Johnson Wax Building Part analysis part manifesto it reads like one of those Renaissance Humanist tomes meant to Capricorne, tome 3 : Deliah cap a scholar s lifelong study Lucky for us Venturi went on to practice for another half The Fifth Risk eBook: Michael Lewis: Amazon.fr: Amazon Media EUS.à r.l. century producing some of the most memorable How Science Works: The Facts Visually Explained (How Things Work) challenging historically literate works in Postmodernism

Review Ð Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture Æ PDF, DOC, TXT, eBook or Kindle ePUB free First published in 1966 and since translated into 16 languages this remarkable book has become an essential document in architectural literature As Venturi's gentle manifesto for a nonstraightforward architecture Complexity a. Exceeds even highest expectations Begins like this and barely relents I like elements which are hybrid rather than pure compromising rather than clean distorted rather than straightforward ambiguous rather than articulated perverse as well as impersonal boring as well as interesting conventional rather than designed accommodating rather than excluding redundant rather than simple vestigial as well as innovating inconsistent and euivocal rather than direct and clear I am for messy vitality over obvious unity I include the non seuitur and proclaim the duality

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Review Ð Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture Æ PDF, DOC, TXT, eBook or Kindle ePUB free Nd illuminate the author's ideas on creating and experiencing architecture Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture was the winner of the Classic Book Award at the AIA's Seventh Annual International Architecture Book Awar. A provisional review because I had to set it down halfway through for movingnew jobetc so would probably benefit from a re readingI like a lot of Venturi s ideas There s something very prosaically romantic about embracing architecture s weird little complexities rather than papering over them with grand ideas and I found myself swept away by his ideas for much of the book Embrace the expedient the short term the relativistic the ambiguous yes pleaseBut the last section discussing his work is a reminder that cogent criticism doesn t necessarily lead to beautiful architecture and it helps illuminate the shortcomings in one of his statements architects should accept their modest role rather than disguise it The architect who would accept his role as combiner of significant old clich s valid banalities in new contexts as his condition within a society that directs its best efforts its big money and its elegant technologies elsewhere can ironically express in this indirect way a true concern for society s inverted scale of values There s something intellectually attractive about that but in the end it s an argument for ugly architecture as a form of whining about being low statusI think the golden TV antenna on top of Guild House is a perfect summation of this sure it s funny but it feels like it s punching down mocking the building s elderly residents I m all for humor irony whatever you want to call it but I needed some reflection on where that wit should be targeted if you really want to say something meaningful