Softbound
1987 · New York
by Von Moos, Stanislaus
New York: Rizzoli, 1987. Softbound. VG- (overall light shelf wear to wraps, light wear and foxing to block edges, pages are clean). Color pictorial wraps. 336 pp., profusely illustrated in bw and color. Robert Venturi, partner of the Philadelphia firm of Venturi, Rauch, and Scott Brown, is probably best known for his writing on architecture. Published during a time of growing discontent with modern architecture, Venturi's and Denise Scott Brown's writings helped to redefine architectural design by emphasizing issues like history, language, form, symbolism, and the dialectics of high and popular art. In their architectural projects Venturi and his partners (truncated)