Architecture as Signs and System

Informationen zum Autor Robert Venturi was principal in charge of design in the architectural firm Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates in Philadelphia. He was the recipient of numerous awards and honors, including the Pritzker Prize and the Centennial Medal of the American Academy in Rome and, with Denise Scott Brown, the National Medal of Art and the Vincent J. Scully Prize of the National Building Museum. He taught at Yale and the University of Pennsylvania. Denise Scott Brown is principal in charge of urban and campus planning and design in the architectural firm Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates. She is the recipient of numerous awards and honors, including the ACSA-AIA Topaz Medallion for Architecture Education and the Chicago Architecture Award. She has taught at Harvard, Yale, UCLA, UC Berkeley, and the University of Pennsylvania. Klappentext The observer-designer-theorists who analyzed the Las Vegas strip as an archetype in "Learning from Las Vegas" now turn their iconoclastic vision onto their own remarkable partnership and the rule-breaking architecture it has spawned for this fascinating retrospective of their life work. Zusammenfassung 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 are among the ideas they have championed. Here, they present a retrospective of their work and a definitive statement of its theoretical underpinnings.

Product details

• Authors: Denise Scott Brown, Denise Scott Brown, Robert Venturi
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2004
• EAN: 9780674015715
• ISBN: 978-0-674-01571-5
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 225 mm x 225 mm x 18 mm
• Series: The William E. Massey Sr. Lectures in the History of American Civilization; William E. Massey Sr. Lectures; The William E. Massey Sr. Lectures in American Studies; The William E. Massey Sr. Lectures in the History of American Civilization
• Subject: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs