Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture

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First published in 1966, and since translated into 16 languages, this remarkable book has change into an very important document of architectural literature. A “gentle manifesto for a nonstraightforward architecture,” Venturi’s Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture expresses in essentially the most compelling and original terms the postmodern rebel against the purism of modernism. 300 and fifty architectural photographs function historical comparisons and light up the writer’s ideas on creating and experiencing architecture. Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture used to be the winner of the Classic Book Award on the AIA’s Seventh Annual International Architecture Book Awards.


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