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

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: The Museum of Modern Art papers on architecturePublisher: Museum of Modern Art ; 1977Copyright date: ©1977Edition: Second editionDescription: 136 pages : illustrations ; 23 x 29 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0870702815
  • 9780870702822
  • 0870702823
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • NA2760 VEN
Contents:
Nonstraightforward architecture: a gentle manifesto Complexity and contradiction vs. simplification or picturesqueness Ambiguity Contradictory levels: the phenomenon of "Both-And" in architecture Contradictory levels continued: the double-functioning element Accommodation and the limitations of order: the conventional element Contradiction adapted Contradiction juxtaposed The inside and the outside The obligation toward the difficult whole
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Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book Main Library Open Shelf NA2760 VEN (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 163099 Available BK151050
Book Book Main Library Open Shelf NA2760 VEN (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 161010 Available BK148921

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Nonstraightforward architecture: a gentle manifesto Complexity and contradiction vs. simplification or picturesqueness Ambiguity Contradictory levels: the phenomenon of "Both-And" in architecture Contradictory levels continued: the double-functioning element Accommodation and the limitations of order: the conventional element Contradiction adapted Contradiction juxtaposed The inside and the outside The obligation toward the difficult whole

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