Background
Venturi, Robert was born on June 25, 1925 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Robert C. and Vanna (Lanzetta) Venturi.
(First published in 1966, and since translated into 16 lan...)
First published in 1966, and since translated into 16 languages, this remarkable book has become an essential document in architectural literature. As Venturi's ""gentle manifesto for a nonstraightforward architecture,"" Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture expresses in the most compelling and original terms the postmodern rebellion against the purism of modernism. Three hundred and fifty architectural photographs serve as historical comparisons and illuminate the author's ideas on creating and experiencing architecture. Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture was the winner of the Classic Book Award at the AIA's Seventh Annual International Architecture Book Awards.
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("I am especially pleased to have had the wit to assert in...)
"I am especially pleased to have had the wit to assert in [my original introduction] the Complexity and Contradiction was 'the most important writing on the making of architecture since Le Corbusier's Vers une Architecture, of 1923.' Time has shown that this outrageous statement was nothing more than the unvarnished truth, and the critics who found it most amusing or infuriating at that moment now seem to spend a remarkable amount of energy quoting Venturi without acknowledgement, or chiding him for not going far enough, or showing that they themselves had really said it all long before. It doesn't matter much. What counts is that this brilliant, liberating book was published when it was. It provided architects and critics alike with more realistic and effective weapons, so that the breadth and relevance which the architectural dialogue has since achieved were largely initiated by it." - Vincent Scully, April, 1977
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( Robert Venturi exploded onto the architectural scene i...)
Robert Venturi exploded onto the architectural scene in 1966 with a radical call to arms in Complexity and Contradiction. Further accolades and outrage ensued in 1972 when Venturi and Denise Scott Brown (along with Steven Izenour) analyzed the Las Vegas strip as an archetype in Learning from Las Vegas. Now, for the first time, these two observer-designer-theorists turn their iconoclastic vision onto their own remarkable partnership and the rule-breaking architecture it has informed. The views of Venturi and Scott Brown have influenced architects worldwide for nearly half a century. Pluralism and multiculturalism; symbolism and iconography; popular culture and the everyday landscape; generic building and electronic communication are among the many ideas they have championed. Here, they present both a fascinating retrospective of their life work and a definitive statement of its theoretical underpinnings. Accessible, informative, and beautifully illustrated, Architecture as Signs and Systems is a must for students of architecture and urban planning, as well as anyone intrigued by these seminal cultural figures. Venturi and Scott Brown have devoted their professional lives to broadening our view of the built world and enlarging the purview of practitioners within it. By looking backward over their own life work, they discover signs and systems that point forward, toward a humane Mannerist architecture for a complex, multicultural society.
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In Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes, Robert M. Emerson, Rachel I. Fretz, and Linda L. Shaw present a series of guidelines, suggestions, and practical advice for creating useful fieldnotes in a variety of settings, demystifying a process that is often assumed to be intuitive and impossible to teach. Using actual unfinished notes as examples, the authors illustrate options for composing, reviewing, and working fieldnotes into finished texts. They discuss different organizational and descriptive strategies and show how transforming direct observations into vivid descriptions results not simply from good memory but from learning to envision scenes as written. A good ethnographer, they demonstrate, must learn to remember dialogue and movement like an actor, to see colors and shapes like a painter, and to sense moods and rhythms like a poet. This new edition reflects the extensive feedback the authors have received from students and instructors since the first edition was published in 1995. As a result, they have updated the race, class, and gender section, created new sections on coding programs and revising first drafts, and provided new examples of working notes. An essential tool for budding social scientists, the second edition of Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes will be invaluable for a new generation of researchers entering the field.
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Venturi, Robert was born on June 25, 1925 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Robert C. and Vanna (Lanzetta) Venturi.
Graduate, Episcopal Academy, 1944. AB summa cum laude, Princeton University, 1947. Master of Fine Arts, Princeton University, 1950.
Doctor of Fine Arts (honorary), Princeton University, 1983. Doctor of Fine Arts (honorary), Oberlin College, 1977. Doctor of Fine Arts (honorary), Yale University, 1979.
Doctor of Fine Arts (honorary), University Pennsylvania, 1980. Laurea Honoris Causa in Architecture, University Rome "La Sapienza", 1994.
Designer, Oskar Stonorov 1950, Eero Saarinen & Association 1950-1953. Rome; Fellow, American Academy, in Rome 1954-1956. Designer, Louis I. Khan 1957.
Association Professor, School of Fine Arts, University of Pennsylvania 1957-1965. Charlotte Shepherd Davenport Professor, Yale University 1966-1970. Principal, Venturi, Cope & Lippincott 1958-1961, Venturi and Short 1961-1964, Venturi and Rauch 196480, Venturi, Rauch and Scott Brown (architects and planners) 1980-1989.
Venturi, Scott Brown and Associations June since 1989. Professional.
("I am especially pleased to have had the wit to assert in...)
(First published in 1966, and since translated into 16 lan...)
( Robert Venturi exploded onto the architectural scene i...)
( In Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes, Robert M. Emerson, ...)
(Architecture, Venturi, MOMA_publication)
Author: Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture, 1966, Iconography and Electronics upon a Generic Architecture, 1996. Co-author (with Denise Scott Brown and Steven Izenour): Learning from Las Vegas, 1972.: second edition, 1977. Co-author: (with Denise Scott Brown) A View from the Campidoglio, Selected Essays, 1953-1984, Architecture as Signs and Systems for a Mannerist Time, 2004. Contributor articles to professional journals.Principal works include Vanna Venturi House, Philadelphia, 1961, Guild House, 1961, Humanities Building, State University of New York, 1972, Franklin Court, Philadelphia, 1972, addition to Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, 1973, Institute for Science Information Corporation Headquarters, Philadelphia, 1978, Gordon Wu Hall, Princeton University, 1980, Seattle Art Museum, 1984, The National Gallery, Sainsbury Wing, London, 1986, Fisher and Bendheim Halls, Princeton University, 1986, Gordon and Virginia MacDonald Medical Research Laboratories (with Payette Associates), University of California at Los Angeles, 1986, Charles P. Stevenson Junior Library., Bard College, 1989, Roy and Diana Vagelos Laboratories IAST (with Payette Associates), University Pennsylvania, 1990, Regional Government Building, Toulouse, France, 1992, Kirifuri Resort Facilities, Nikko, Japan, 1992, Trabant University Center, University Delaware, Newark, 1992, Memorial Hall Restoration and Addition, Harvard University, 1992, The Barnes Foundation Restoration and Renovation, Merion, Pennsylvania, 1993, Disney Celebration (Florida) Bank, 1993, Gonda (Goldschmied) Neuroscience and Genetics Research Center (with Lee, Burkhart, Liu Incorporated), University of California at Los Angeles, 1993, Princeton Campus Center, Princeton University, 1996, Anlyan Center for Medical Research and Education, Yale University School Medicine, 1998, (with Payette Associates) Master Plan and Buildings for University Michigan, since 1997, Baker/Berry Library., Dartmouth College, 1996, Woodmere Art Museum addition, 2000, biomedical Research Building, University Kentucky, 2000, Dumbarton Oaks Library.Expansion, Washington, District of Columbia, 2001, Stuart Country Day School Theater/Auditorium/Sanctuary, Princeton, New Jersey, 2001, Nano Systems Institute, North Carolina, Santa Barbara, 2001, Lehigh Valley Hospital-Muhlenberg, Allentown, Pennsylvania, 2002, LVH-Cedar Crest, 2003, Episcopal Academy Chapel, Newtown Square, Pennsylvania, 2004, Congregation Beth El, Sunbury, Pennsylvania, 2004, Lenfest Hall, Curtis Institute Music, Philadelphia, 2006.
Trustee American Academy Rome, 1966—1971. Fellow: American Institute of Architects (award 1974, 1977, 1978), Accademia Nazionale di San Luca, American Academy Arts and Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Letters, Royal Inc. Architects of Scotland (honorary), Royal Institute British Architects (honorary), American Academy in Rome.
Member: European Academy of Sciences and Arts, Phi Beta Kappa.
Travel.
Married Denise Lakofski, July 23, 1967. 1 child James Charles.