UID:
kobvindex_INT0003118
Format:
136 pages
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richly illustrated (black and white), plans
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22 x 28 cm
Edition:
2nd edition, reprint
ISBN:
9780870702815
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9780870702822
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0870702815
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0870702823
Content:
"[...] the strength and value of our contact with art will depend upon the quality of our historical knowledge. [...] Venturi's two major books have been constructed along precisely these lines. They are both critical and historical. This one, the first, [...] explores mainly the physical reaction to form and is thus basically empathetic in method. The second, 'Learning from Las Vegas' [...], is primarily concerned with the function of sign in human art [...] Between them the two volumes, always impeccably visual in their argument, shape an impressive working aesthetic for contemporary architects."
Content:
"A practicing architect discusses the theoretical background of modern architecture."
Note:
EDITORIAL NOTE: previous edition: ©1966
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EDITORIAL NOTE: this 2nd edition first published: ©1977
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Foreword -- Introduction -- Preface -- Non-straightforward architecture : a gentle manifesto -- Complexity and contradiction vs. simplification or picturesqueness -- Ambiguity -- Contradictory levels : The phenomenon of "both-and" in architecture -- Contradictory levels continued : the double-functioning element -- Accommodation and the limitations of order : the conventional element -- Contradiction adapted -- Contradiction juxtaposed -- The inside and the outside -- The obligation toward the difficult whole -- Works -- Notes -- Photograph credits
Language:
English
