ICONOGRAPHY AND ELECTRONICS UPON A GENERIC ARCHITECTURE, A VIEW FROM T.

VENTURI, Robert. ICONOGRAPHY AND ELECTRONICS UPON A GENERIC ARCHITECTURE, A VIEW FROM THE DRAFTING ROOM. Cambridge: (1996). 8vo. Cloth, dust jacket. xvi, 374 pages. First edition. A vintage Robert Venturi collection of essays, letters, reports, manifestos, polemical texts offering his always candid views on the state of the architectural profession. In this, his latest offering, Venturi, with all hi usual grace and wit, "argues for a generic architecture defined by iconograph and electronics, an architecture that has used meaning as shelter and symbol. It is a call to architecture to recover its lost soul.