Complexity and contradiction in architecture / Robert Venturi, with an introduction by Vincent Scully.
Material type:
TextSeries: Museum of Modern Art papers on architecture ; 1.Publisher: New York, N.Y. : Museum of Modern Art, [1968]Distributor: Greenwich, Conn. : New York Graphic Society Copyright date: ©1966Description: 135 pages : illustrations, plans ; 21 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 720.1 23
- NA2760 .V46 1968
Contents:
1. Nonstraightforward architecture: a gentle manifesto -- 2. Complexity and contradiction vs. simplification or picturesqueness -- 3. Ambiguity -- 4. Contradictory levels: the phenomenon of "both-and" in architecture -- 5. Contradictory levels continued: the double-functioning element -- 6. Accommodation and the limitations of order: the conventional element -- 7. Contradiction adapted -- 8. Contradiction juxtaposed -- 9. The inside and the outside -- 10. The obligation toward the difficult whole -- 11. Works.
| Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Book | City Campus City Campus Main Collection | 720.1 VEN (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | A060957B |
Second printing, 1968.
Includes bibliographical references.
1. Nonstraightforward architecture: a gentle manifesto -- 2. Complexity and contradiction vs. simplification or picturesqueness -- 3. Ambiguity -- 4. Contradictory levels: the phenomenon of "both-and" in architecture -- 5. Contradictory levels continued: the double-functioning element -- 6. Accommodation and the limitations of order: the conventional element -- 7. Contradiction adapted -- 8. Contradiction juxtaposed -- 9. The inside and the outside -- 10. The obligation toward the difficult whole -- 11. Works.
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