Complexity and Contradiction at fifty: Studies toward an Ongoing Debate - Hardcover

David Brownlee; Robert Venturi; Jean-Louis Cohen; Lee Ann Custer; Peter Fröhlicher; Diane Harris; Andrew Leach; Mary McLeod; Stanislaus Von Moos; Joan Ockman; Emmanuel Petit

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1633450627 ISBN 13: 9781633450622

Publisher: The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2019

Synopsis

A two-volume boxset facsimile of the first printing of Complexity and Contradiction paired with a compendium of new scholarship on and around Robert Venturi’s seminal treatise.

First published in 1966, this remarkable book by Robert Venturi has become an essential document in architectural literature. This two-volume boxed set presents a facsimile of the first printing of Complexity and Contradiction paired with a compendium of new scholarship on and around Venturi’s seminal treatise. Ten essays and a selection of original papers – introduced at a three-day international conference co-organized by MoMA to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the book – address diverse issues, such as the book’s relationship to Venturi’s own built oeuvre and its significance in the contemporary landscape. Together, these volumes expand the horizons of Venturi’s original ideas on creating and experiencing architecture.

About this edition

• Publisher: The Museum of Modern Art, New York
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1633450627
• ISBN 13: 9781633450622
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 296
• Editor: Martino Stierli