‘Complexity and Contradiction changed how we look at, think and talk about architecture’
By: Stierli, Martino.
Publisher: London EMAP Publishing Limited 2016Edition: 22 December 2016.Subject(s): ARCHITECTURE GENERAL (AR-GEN)Online resources: Click here In: Architectural reviewSummary: Not many architecture books have defined a specific historical moment in the way Robert Venturi’s Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture has; a book that, published 50 years ago and in print to the present day, fundamentally changed how we look at, think and talk about architecture. The architectural historian Vincent Scully’s famous assessment of Venturi’s treatise as ‘probably the most important writing on the making of architecture since Le Corbusier’s Vers une Architecture’ has proven to be to the point in many ways, and few architecture books since have achieved a comparable significance in shaping the discipline’s discourse.Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Not many architecture books have defined a specific historical moment in the way Robert Venturi’s Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture has; a book that, published 50 years ago and in print to the present day, fundamentally changed how we look at, think and talk about architecture. The architectural historian Vincent Scully’s famous assessment of Venturi’s treatise as ‘probably the most important writing on the making of architecture since Le Corbusier’s Vers une Architecture’ has proven to be to the point in many ways, and few architecture books since have achieved a comparable significance in shaping the discipline’s discourse.
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