Complexity and contradiction in architecture / Robert Venturi, with an introduction by Vincent Scully.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: 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
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: No titleDDC classification:
  • 720.1 23
LOC classification:
  • 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.
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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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