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Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture Robert Venturi
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams

Robert Venturi – Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture – I really don't like Venturi's work, but this book is a masterpiece. €�I like complexity and contradiction in architecture. Author: Robert Venturi Publisher: The Museum of Modern Art, New York Link: Amazon.com. Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture. His book Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture, published in 1966, was for architects what Jane Jacobs's Death and Life of Great American Cities was for city planners: the book that overturned the orthodoxy. Between the inside and outside of a building, finding this a major opportunity for contradiction in architecture , something which he championed in his ground-breaking book ;Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture . For the past two weeks my most recent design project has forced me to reevaluate contemporary architecture's seminal texts Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture. Complexity and Contradiction vs. Nonstraightforward Architecture: A Gentle Manifesto. Illustrations: Above, an architect's cubicle at the New York headquarters of Robert A.M. Architecture in the post-war decades toward a sophisticated, historically referential approach with his landmark treatise, Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture (1966). Stern Architects; below, Robert A.M. I do not like the incoherence or arbitrariness of incompetent architecture nor the precious intricacies of picturesqueness or expressionism. Robert Venturi in Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture addresses architecture as the only place where redundant and simple construction, in thinking and in material reality, takes shape. An architecture of complexity and contradiction, however, does not mean picturesqueness or subjective expressionism. The event was loosely structured as a celebration of the 40-year anniversary of the publication of Venturi's seminal debut book, Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture (1966). €�But an architecture of of complexity and contradiction also embraces the “difficult” number of parts--the duality, and the medium degrees of multiplicity.” Piero della Francesca, Flagellation of Christ, ca. Language of Post-Modern Architecture. In that sense, life, with all of its complexities and contradictions, always exceeds the limited scope and vision of form as conceived by the architect. Venturi, Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture, New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1966.