A view from the Campidoglio
selected essays, 1953-1984
1st ed.
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Author
Contributions
- Scott Brown, Denise, 1931- - Contributor
- Arnell, Peter. - Contributor
- Bickford, Ted. - Contributor
- Bergart, Catherine. - Contributor
Publication
1984 - Harper & Row, New York, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
38,500 words, Guess
Page Count
154 pages
Identifiers
- ISBN-100064388514
- ISBN-100064301397
- ISBN-139780064388511
- ISBN-139780064301398
- Goodreads1170817', '2065781
and 6 more
- Library of Congress Control Number83049206
- OCLC Control Number11925413
- Better World Books9780064301398
- Better World Books9780064388511
- Better World BooksT2-DMG-850
- Open LibraryOL3187915M
Classifications
- DDC724.9/1
- LCCNA2540 .V4 1984
- LCCNA2510
Description
These seventeen essays span thirty-two years in the careers of Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown. In these careers one can see the inextricable blending of the building of buildings and the building of words. They "look, analyze, synthesize through writing, synthesize through design, then look again." Robert Venturi's Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture, published in 1966, has been acknowledged as the most important thinking and writing on architecture since Le Corbusier. It provided a theoretical base for architects to transform architectural design from Modern to contemporary. A leading exponent of the Postmodern, the firm of Venturi, Rauch and Scott Brown has been in the forefront of new approaches in architecture and design, combining traditional with modern. And their writing has been viewed as "brilliant and liberating." Paul Goldberger, in The New York Times, says of Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown: "They merge a kind of childlike delight with an adult's ironic sensibility, bringing to architecture an attitude not altogether different from that which Lewis Carroll brought to literature." -- from book cover.
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Series Statement
- Icon editions
Other Editions
- A view from the Campidoglio: selected essays, 1953-1984
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