Venturi, Robert
Overview
| Works: | 425 works in 1,115 publications in 13 languages and 12,930 library holdings |
|---|---|
| Genres: | History Criticism, interpretation, etc Exhibition catalogs Documentary films Architectural drawings Educational films Exhibition, pictorial works Nonfiction films Biographical films Internet videos |
| Roles: | Author, Illustrator, Artist, zxx, Author of introduction, Honoree, Other, Dedicatee, Interviewee, Commentator, Contributor |
| Classifications: | NA735.L3, 720.1 |
Publication Timeline
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Most widely held works about
Robert Venturi
- 10 buildings that changed America by Geoffrey Baer( Visual )
- Theoretical anxiety and design strategies in the work of eight contemporary architects by José Rafael Moneo( Book )
- Las Vegas in the rearview mirror : the city in theory, photography, and film by Martino Stierli( Book )
- Post-modernism( Visual )
- Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown : Learning from Las Vegas by Kester Rattenbury( Book )
- Las Vegas studio : images from the archives of Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown( Book )
- The difficult whole : a reference book on Robert Venturi, John Rauch and Denise Scott Brown( Book )
- Venturi, Scott Brown & Associates : buildings and projects, 1986-1998 by Stanislaus von Moos( Book )
- Beyond Utopia : Changing Attitudes in American Architecture( Visual )
- Venturi, Rauch and Scott Brown = Robāto Venchūri sakuhin shū( Book )
- Robert Venturi's Rome by Fred Fisher( Book )
- Robert Charles Venturi, a bibliography by Lamia Doumato( Book )
- Las Vegas im Rückspiegel : die Stadt in Theorie, Fotografie und Film by Martino Stierli( Book )
- Analysis of precedent : an investigation of elements, relationships, and ordering ideas in the work of eight architects by Roger H Clark( Book )
- Gendai kenchikuka 8-nin no sekkei senryaku to riron no tankyū by José Rafael Moneo( Book )
- A guide to the Sainsbury Wing at the National Gallery by Michael Wilson( Book )
- Venturi and Scott Brown : what turns them on = Robāto Venchūri to Denisu Sukotto Buraun kara manabu mono( Book )
- Spark : how creativity works by Julie Burstein( Book )
- Robert Venturi's architecture in review, 1967-1987 by Dale E Casper( Book )
- The Pritzker Architecture Prize 1991 : presented to Robert Venturi by Robert Venturi( Book )
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Most widely held works by
Robert Venturi
Complexity and contradiction in architecture by
Robert Venturi(
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158 editions published between 1966 and 2017 in 12 languages and held by 2,166 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A practicing architect discusses the theoretical background of modern architecture
158 editions published between 1966 and 2017 in 12 languages and held by 2,166 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A practicing architect discusses the theoretical background of modern architecture
Learning from Las Vegas : the forgotten symbolism of architectural form by
Robert Venturi(
Book
)
84 editions published between 1972 and 2017 in English and Turkish and held by 1,763 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Surveys the architecture of the Las Vegas Strip and examines the role of urban sprawl, advertising, and commercial iconography in contemporary building design
84 editions published between 1972 and 2017 in English and Turkish and held by 1,763 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Surveys the architecture of the Las Vegas Strip and examines the role of urban sprawl, advertising, and commercial iconography in contemporary building design
A view from the Campidoglio : selected essays, 1953-1984 by
Robert Venturi(
Book
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15 editions published in 1984 in English and Undetermined and held by 588 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
15 editions published in 1984 in English and Undetermined and held by 588 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The Architecture of Robert Venturi by
Robert Venturi(
Book
)
9 editions published in 1989 in English and held by 519 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Geïllustreerde opstellen over het werk van de Amerikaanse architect (geb. 1925)
9 editions published in 1989 in English and held by 519 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Geïllustreerde opstellen over het werk van de Amerikaanse architect (geb. 1925)
Out of the ordinary : Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown and Associates : architecture, urbanism, design by
David Bruce Brownlee(
Book
)
6 editions published in 2001 in English and held by 507 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
6 editions published in 2001 in English and held by 507 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Iconography and electronics upon a generic architecture : a view from the drafting room by
Robert Venturi(
Book
)
14 editions published between 1996 and 2002 in English and held by 487 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"Robert Venturi's 'Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture' and 'Learning from Las Vegas' (the latter coauthored with Denise Scott Brown and Steven Izenour) are among the most influential books by any architect of our era - the one celebrating complexity in architecture, the other the uses of symbolism in commercial and vernacular architecture and signage. This new collection of writings in a variety of genres argues for a generic architecture defined by iconography and electronics, an architecture whose elemental qualities become shelter and symbol. Venturi, who along with his partner, Denise Scott Brown, made the vulgar acceptable and found virtue in the commercial, the kitsch, and the ordinary, is respected equally as a theorist and an architect who communicates his architectural ideas, formal and verbal, with grace and wit. These essays, letters, reports, lectures, manifestos, and polemical texts offer a candid, uncensored view from the drafting room, commonsense responses, urgent and diverse, of a busy architect, in part a reaction against the conceptualizing of architecture today invaded by other disciplines and made obscure. Seven of the essays were coauthored with Denise Scott Brown. The voice is personal, eloquent in expounding on the unglamorous side of practice; sometimes vituperative and corrective in addressing clients, theoreticians, and critics; often amusing and humorous in looking back on past projects and opportunities; instructive in describing early influences and tasts; and reflective in assessing his own impact on the profession. The lead essays can be described as an argument embracing reference and representation in our information age, whose technical basis is truly of our time and whose iconographic basis derives from a long tradition in architecture including hieroglyphic Egyptian pylons, early Christian basilicas, scenographic Baroque interiors, and even eclectic Romantic architecture and twentieth-century electronic signs and displays. The essays include Venturi's 1950 M.F.A. thesis, published here for the first time - a work that foreshadows many of the themes that were later to make him a controversial and ground-breaking architect and writer - and a series of vintage Venturi aphorisms"--Back cover
14 editions published between 1996 and 2002 in English and held by 487 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"Robert Venturi's 'Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture' and 'Learning from Las Vegas' (the latter coauthored with Denise Scott Brown and Steven Izenour) are among the most influential books by any architect of our era - the one celebrating complexity in architecture, the other the uses of symbolism in commercial and vernacular architecture and signage. This new collection of writings in a variety of genres argues for a generic architecture defined by iconography and electronics, an architecture whose elemental qualities become shelter and symbol. Venturi, who along with his partner, Denise Scott Brown, made the vulgar acceptable and found virtue in the commercial, the kitsch, and the ordinary, is respected equally as a theorist and an architect who communicates his architectural ideas, formal and verbal, with grace and wit. These essays, letters, reports, lectures, manifestos, and polemical texts offer a candid, uncensored view from the drafting room, commonsense responses, urgent and diverse, of a busy architect, in part a reaction against the conceptualizing of architecture today invaded by other disciplines and made obscure. Seven of the essays were coauthored with Denise Scott Brown. The voice is personal, eloquent in expounding on the unglamorous side of practice; sometimes vituperative and corrective in addressing clients, theoreticians, and critics; often amusing and humorous in looking back on past projects and opportunities; instructive in describing early influences and tasts; and reflective in assessing his own impact on the profession. The lead essays can be described as an argument embracing reference and representation in our information age, whose technical basis is truly of our time and whose iconographic basis derives from a long tradition in architecture including hieroglyphic Egyptian pylons, early Christian basilicas, scenographic Baroque interiors, and even eclectic Romantic architecture and twentieth-century electronic signs and displays. The essays include Venturi's 1950 M.F.A. thesis, published here for the first time - a work that foreshadows many of the themes that were later to make him a controversial and ground-breaking architect and writer - and a series of vintage Venturi aphorisms"--Back cover
Architecture as signs and systems : for a mannerist time by
Robert Venturi(
Book
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14 editions published in 2004 in English and held by 441 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"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 retrospective of their life work and a definitive statement of its theoretical underpinnings." "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."--Jacket
14 editions published in 2004 in English and held by 441 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"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 retrospective of their life work and a definitive statement of its theoretical underpinnings." "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."--Jacket
Mother's house : the evolution of Vanna Venturi's house in Chestnut Hill(
Book
)
8 editions published in 1992 in English and held by 345 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
8 editions published in 1992 in English and held by 345 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Viva Las Vegas : After-Hours Architecture by
Alan Hess(
Book
)
4 editions published in 1993 in English and held by 241 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
4 editions published in 1993 in English and held by 241 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Sir John Soane : an English architect, an American legacy by
Murray Grigor(
Visual
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2 editions published between 2005 and 2014 in English and held by 239 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
All great art engages in a dialogue with the past. Architecture is no exception, as this film shows in its examination of the legacy of Sir John Soane (1753-1837), an English architect of rare genius whose influence on a generation of America's foremost architects is profound. Among them, Henry Cobb, Michael Graves, Philip Johnson, Richard Meier, Robert Stern, Denise Scott Brown and Robert Venturi, all acknowledge their debt to Soane and his idiosyncratic reinterpretations of the architecture of antiquity. This film investigates the influence of antiquity on Soane by following his Grand Tour footsteps through Rome and Sicily, as well as the ways in which his stripped-down classical style helped guide American architects out of the strictures of Modernism. Exquisite footage of Soane's masterpieces, including of his residence museum in London and the Dulwich Picture Gallery, is intercut with detailed views of works by the Americans, including Philip Johnson's Guest House, Richard Meier's Getty Museum, Michael Graves' own residence and Newark Museum renovation, Henry Cobb's Payson Building of the Portland Museum of Art as well as the Sainsbury Wing of the National Gallery in London, designed by Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown. Through interviews and guided tours, these architects, along with architectural historians, Charles Jencks and Christopher Woodward, offer unique insight into the ways in which their works refract the genius of Soane. Producer: Edgar B. Howard. Director: Murray Grigor. Editor: Tom Piper. Camera: David Leitner/Tom Piper. Music: Juillard School Students
2 editions published between 2005 and 2014 in English and held by 239 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
All great art engages in a dialogue with the past. Architecture is no exception, as this film shows in its examination of the legacy of Sir John Soane (1753-1837), an English architect of rare genius whose influence on a generation of America's foremost architects is profound. Among them, Henry Cobb, Michael Graves, Philip Johnson, Richard Meier, Robert Stern, Denise Scott Brown and Robert Venturi, all acknowledge their debt to Soane and his idiosyncratic reinterpretations of the architecture of antiquity. This film investigates the influence of antiquity on Soane by following his Grand Tour footsteps through Rome and Sicily, as well as the ways in which his stripped-down classical style helped guide American architects out of the strictures of Modernism. Exquisite footage of Soane's masterpieces, including of his residence museum in London and the Dulwich Picture Gallery, is intercut with detailed views of works by the Americans, including Philip Johnson's Guest House, Richard Meier's Getty Museum, Michael Graves' own residence and Newark Museum renovation, Henry Cobb's Payson Building of the Portland Museum of Art as well as the Sainsbury Wing of the National Gallery in London, designed by Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown. Through interviews and guided tours, these architects, along with architectural historians, Charles Jencks and Christopher Woodward, offer unique insight into the ways in which their works refract the genius of Soane. Producer: Edgar B. Howard. Director: Murray Grigor. Editor: Tom Piper. Camera: David Leitner/Tom Piper. Music: Juillard School Students
Learning from La Jolla : Robert Venturi remakes a museum in the precinct of Irving Gill by
Hugh Marlais Davies(
Book
)
8 editions published between 1996 and 1998 in English and held by 208 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
8 editions published between 1996 and 1998 in English and held by 208 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Lernen von Las Vegas : zur Ikonographie und Architektursymbolik der Geschäftsstadt by
Robert Venturi(
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22 editions published between 1979 and 2014 in German and held by 202 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
22 editions published between 1979 and 2014 in German and held by 202 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Louis Kahn : silence and light by
Louis I Kahn(
Visual
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3 editions published between 2007 and 2014 in English and held by 177 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
With the participation of William Jordy, Jonas Salk, Aldo Rossi, Arata Isozaki, Tadao Ando, Robert Venturi, Denise Scott-Brown, Brendan Gill, and others. Narration by Kenneth Frampton. As an architect, educator, and philosopher, Louis Kahn played a prominent role in the history of 20th century architecture. An examination of six of his most significant buildings gives insight to his unique vision: The Salk Institute in La Jolla; the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth; the Center for British Art in New Haven; the library at Philips Exeter Academy in Exeter, New Hampshire; the Indian Institute of Management in Ahmedabad and the Parliament Buildings of Bangladesh in Dhaka. The visits to the sites are enhanced with historic footage and sound recordings of Kahn
3 editions published between 2007 and 2014 in English and held by 177 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
With the participation of William Jordy, Jonas Salk, Aldo Rossi, Arata Isozaki, Tadao Ando, Robert Venturi, Denise Scott-Brown, Brendan Gill, and others. Narration by Kenneth Frampton. As an architect, educator, and philosopher, Louis Kahn played a prominent role in the history of 20th century architecture. An examination of six of his most significant buildings gives insight to his unique vision: The Salk Institute in La Jolla; the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth; the Center for British Art in New Haven; the library at Philips Exeter Academy in Exeter, New Hampshire; the Indian Institute of Management in Ahmedabad and the Parliament Buildings of Bangladesh in Dhaka. The visits to the sites are enhanced with historic footage and sound recordings of Kahn
De l'ambiguïté en architecture by
Robert Venturi(
Book
)
31 editions published between 1971 and 1999 in 3 languages and held by 134 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
31 editions published between 1971 and 1999 in 3 languages and held by 134 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Venturi Scott Brown & Associates : on houses and housing by
Venturi Scott Brown and Associates(
Book
)
9 editions published in 1992 in English and held by 125 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
9 editions published in 1992 in English and held by 125 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown, and Steven Izenour at Acadia Summer Arts Program by
Marion Boulton Stroud(
Book
)
2 editions published in 2010 in English and held by 115 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
2 editions published in 2010 in English and held by 115 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Complejidad y contradicción en la arquitectura by
Robert Venturi(
Book
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34 editions published between 1972 and 2011 in Spanish and Undetermined and held by 114 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
El autor propone un programa de diseño arquitectónico basado en valores de pluralidad funcional y ambigüedad significativa, de acuerdo con las exigencias simbólicas de la psicología individual y colectiva y con los fenómenos de información masiva característicos de la ciudad moderna
34 editions published between 1972 and 2011 in Spanish and Undetermined and held by 114 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
El autor propone un programa de diseño arquitectónico basado en valores de pluralidad funcional y ambigüedad significativa, de acuerdo con las exigencias simbólicas de la psicología individual y colectiva y con los fenómenos de información masiva característicos de la ciudad moderna
Complexity : design strategy and world view by
Kostas Terzidis(
)
6 editions published between 2008 and 2012 in German and English and held by 73 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Main description: Today it is complexity studies, with their starting point in physics, that define the current approach to the concept of complexity. They have established a new connection between the natural sciences and information technology and have thus become a central premise of computer-based approaches to design
6 editions published between 2008 and 2012 in German and English and held by 73 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Main description: Today it is complexity studies, with their starting point in physics, that define the current approach to the concept of complexity. They have established a new connection between the natural sciences and information technology and have thus become a central premise of computer-based approaches to design
L'Enseignement de Las Vegas ou le symbolisme oublié de la forme architecturale by
Robert Venturi(
Book
)
13 editions published between 1977 and 2000 in French and held by 73 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
13 editions published between 1977 and 2000 in French and held by 73 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The Pritzker Architecture Prize 1991 : presented to Robert Venturi by
Robert Venturi(
Book
)
3 editions published in 1991 in English and held by 72 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
3 editions published in 1991 in English and held by 72 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
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Related Identities
- Scott Brown, Denise 1931- Other Interviewee Artist Author of introduction Illustrator Dedicatee Honoree Author Contributor
- Izenour, Steven Other Author of introduction
- Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)
- Gehry, Frank O. 1929- Artist
- Venturi Scott Brown and Associates
- Scully, Vincent Jr 1920-2017 Author of introduction Other Contributor
- Baer, Geoffrey Narrator
- Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego Other
- Sullivan, Louis H. 1856-1924
- Arnell, Peter
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Architects Architecture Architecture, Domestic Architecture, Modern Architecture, Modern--Themes, motives Architecture, Postmodern Architecture and society Architecture--Composition, proportion, etc Architecture--Philosophy Architecture--Themes, motives Art, Modern Buildings Communication in architectural design Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.) Creative ability Dulles International Airport Eclecticism in architecture Eisenman, Peter, Gehry, Frank O., Gifted persons Gruen, Victor, Herzog & de Meuron Jefferson, Thomas, Kahn, Albert, Kahn, Louis I., Koolhaas, Rem Mies van der Rohe, Ludwig, Nevada--Las Vegas Pennsylvania--Philadelphia Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--Chestnut Hill Postmodernism Richardson, H. H.--(Henry Hobson), Robie House (Chicago, Ill.) Rossi, Aldo, Saarinen, Eero, Scott Brown, Denise, Seagram Building (New York, N.Y.) Siza, Alvaro, Soane, John, Stirling, James--(James Frazer) Sullivan, Louis H., Symbolism in architecture Trinity Church (Boston, Mass.) United States Vanna Venturi House (Philadelphia, Pa.) Venturi, Robert Venturi Scott Brown and Associates Virginia State Capitol (Richmond, Va.) Walt Disney Concert Hall (Los Angeles, Calif.) Wright, Frank Lloyd,
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Robert Charles Venturi
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Venturi, R.
Venturi, R. (Robert)
Venturi, Robert 1925-
Venturi, Robert Charles
Venturi, Robert Charles 1925-
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