Main entry:

Venturi, Robert, author.

Title & Author:

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

Edition:

Second edition.

Publication:

New York : Museum of Modern Art, 1977.
New York : Harry N. Abrams, Inc.

Description:

132 pages : illustrations ; 23 x 29 cm

Series:

The Museum of Modern Art papers on architecture

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Preface -- Ch.1: Nonstraightforward Architecture: A Gentle Manifesto -- Ch.2: Complexity and Contradiction vs. Simplification or Picturesqueness -- Ch.3: Ambiguity -- Ch.4: Contradictory Levels: The Phenomenon of "Both-And" in Architecture -- Ch.5: Contradictory Levels Continued: The Double-Functioning Element -- Ch.6: Accommodation and the Limitations of Order: The Conventional Element -- Ch.7: Contradiction Adapted -- Ch.8: Contradiction Juxtaposed -- Ch.9: The Inside and the Outside -- Ch.10: The Obligation Toward the Difficult Whole -- Ch.11: Works -- Notes -- Photograph Credits

Summary:

A practicing architect discusses the theoretical background of modern architecture.

ISBN:

0870702815
9780870702815
0870702823 (pbk.)
9780870702822 (pbk.)
0810960230 (Abrams)
9780810960237
0851391117
9780851391113

Subject:

Architecture Composition, proportion, etc.
Architecture Composition, proportions, etc.
Architecture
Composition
Proportion
Architectural Form.
American Architects.
Architectural theory.
Modern Movement.
Postmodern Architecture (object genre)

Added entries:

Scully, Vincent, writer of introduction.
Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)
Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.). Papers on architecture.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 29548
Call No.: 6879
Copy: c. 2
Notes: hardcover
Status: Available