Iconography and Electronics upon a Generic Architecture A View from the Drafting Room |
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Author:
| Venturi, Robert |
ISBN: | 978-0-262-22051-4 |
Publication Date: | May 1996 |
Publisher: | MIT Press
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Book Format: | Hardback |
List Price: | USD $45.00 |
Book Description:
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Robert Venturi is the author of Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture and Learning from Las Vegas (the latter co-authored with Denise Scott Brown and Steven Izenour) - the one celebrating complexity in architecture, the other the uses of symbolism in commercial and vernacular architecture and signage. This collection of writings in a variety of genres argues for a generic architecture defined by iconography and electronics, an architecture whose elemental qualities become...
More DescriptionRobert Venturi is the author of Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture and Learning from Las Vegas (the latter co-authored with Denise Scott Brown and Steven Izenour) - the one celebrating complexity in architecture, the other the uses of symbolism in commercial and vernacular architecture and signage. This collection of writings in a variety of genres argues for a generic architecture defined by iconography and electronics, an architecture whose elemental qualities become shelter and symbol.