Complexity and contradiction in architecture /

Venturi, Robert,

Complexity and contradiction in architecture / Robert Venturi, with an introduction by Vincent Scully. - 135 pages : illustrations, plans ; 21 cm. - Museum of Modern Art papers on architecture, 1 . - Museum of Modern Art papers on architecture ; 1. .

Second printing, 1968.

Includes bibliographical references.

Nonstraightforward 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. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11.


Architecture--Composition, proportion, etc.

NA2760 / .V46 1968

720.1

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