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First published in 1966, and since translated into 16 languages, this remarkable book has become an essential document of architectural literature. A "gentle manifesto for a nonstraightforward architecture," Venturi's Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture expresses in the most compelling and ... Read More about Robert Venturi: Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture (Museum of Modern Art Papers on Architecture)

Learning from Las Vegas created a healthy controversy on its appearance in 1972, calling for architects to be more receptive to the tastes and values of "common" people and less immodest in their erections of "heroic," self-aggrandizing monuments. This revision includes the full texts of Part I of t... Read More about Learning from Las Vegas, revised edition: The Forgotten Symbolism of Architectural Form

Now available in its original edition along with critical commentary, Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture is the founding text of postmodernism in architecture First published in 1966, Robert Venturi's Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture, widely considered the foundational text of ... Read More about Complexity and Contradiction at Fifty: Robert Venturi's Gentle Manifesto: A Symposium

The founder of the Acadia Summer Arts Program, Marion Boulton Stroud, asked Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown and Steven Izenour to design and construct houses and other structures for the camp. The architects took as inspiration Maine's indigenous architecture, such as shingle houses and lobster s... Read More about Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown, and Steven Izenour at Acadia Summer Arts Program

Robert Venturi's Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture and Learning from Las Vegas (the latter coauthored with Denise Scott Brown and Steven Izenour) are among the most influential books by any architect of our era -- the one celebrating complexity in architecture, the other the uses of symbo... Read More about Iconography and Electronics Upon a Generic Architecture: A View from the Drafting Room

As eccentric and entertaining as its subject matter, Viva Las Vegas examines the architectural and historical evolution of America's original strip city, from its modest origins as a sleepy roadside stop to the neon splendor of its extravagant "theme" hotels. Illustrated with fascinating contemporar... Read More about Viva Las Vegas: After-Hours Architecture