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.