Venturi, Robert

Complexity and contradiction in architecture by Robert Venturi ( Book )
130 editions published between 1966 and 2011 in 4 languages and held by 2,052 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Learning from Las Vegas : the forgotten symbolism of architectural form by Robert Venturi ( Book )
47 editions published between 1972 and 2001 in English and held by 1,579 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 )
8 editions published in 1984 in English and held by 575 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The Architecture of Robert Venturi by Robert Venturi ( Book )
6 editions published in 1989 in English and held by 526 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Out of the ordinary : Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown and Associates : architecture, urbanism, design by David Bruce Brownlee ( Book )
3 editions published in 2001 in English and held by 482 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Iconography and electronics upon a generic architecture : a view from the drafting room by Robert Venturi ( Book )
11 editions published between 1996 and 2002 in English and held by 468 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 )
10 editions published in 2004 in English and held by 413 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."--BOOK JACKET

Mother's house : the evolution of Vanna Venturi's house in Chestnut Hill by Robert Venturi ( Book )
5 editions published in 1992 in English and held by 324 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Learning from La Jolla : Robert Venturi remakes a museum in the precinct of Irving Gill by Hugh Marlais Davies ( Book )
5 editions published between 1996 and 1998 in English and held by 196 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Lernen von Las Vegas : zur Ikonographie und Architektursymbolik der Geschäftsstadt by Robert Venturi ( Book )
14 editions published between 1979 and 2013 in German and held by 154 WorldCat member libraries worldwide