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Iconography and Electronics upon a Generic Architecture A View from the Drafting Room

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ISBN-10: 0262220512

ISBN-13: 9780262220514

Edition: 1996

Authors: Robert Venturi

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List price: $45.00
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: MIT Press
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 390
Size: 7.50" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 2.398

Robert Venturi is principal in charge of design in the architectural firm Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates in Philadelphia. He is 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 has taught at Yale and the University of Pennsylvania.

Preface
Sweet and Sour
A Not So Gentle Manifesto
Homage to Vincent Scully and His Shingle Style, with Reminiscences and Some Outcomes
Donald Drew Egbert - A Tribute
Notes for a Lecture Celebrating the Centennial of the American Academy in Rome Delivered in Chicago
Adorable Discoveries When I Was a Semi-Naive Fellow at the American Academy in Rome That I Never Forget
Armando Brasini Revisited
Furness and Taste
Frank Lloyd Wright Essay for the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts
Words on the Guggenheim Museum in Response to a Request by Thomas Krens
For an Anniversary of the Bauhaus, 1994
Learning from Aalto
A Protest Concerning the Extension of the Salk Center
Thoughts about Evolving Teachers and Students
Louis Kahn Remembered: Notes from a Lecture at the Opening of the Kahn Exhibition in Japan, January 1993
Essay Derived from the Acceptance Speech, the Madison Medal, Princeton University
Robert Venturi's Response at the Pritzker Prize Award Ceremony at the Palacio de Iturbide, Mexico City, May 16, 1991
Episcopal Academy Fiftieth Class Reunion Statement
Two Naifs in Japan
"Venturi Shops"
Las Vegas after Its Classic Age
Some Agonized Thoughts about Maintenance and Preservation Concerning Humble Buildings of the Recent Past
Guild House, Twenty-Five Years Later
Thoughts of Fire Station No. 4 Twenty-Five Years Later
Speech for the Conference "Interiors for Historic Buildings"
The Preservation Game at Penn: An Emotional Response
A Series of Responses for Via, the Journal of the School of Fine Arts, University of Pennsylvania
Personal Approaches and Positions toward Contemporary Architectural Practice
Letter Sent to Several Architect Selection Committees Concerning Competitions, Drafted Members of the Office of Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates
Answer to Charles K. Hoyt, Editor, Architectural Record, Regarding Competitions
The Overwhelming of the Architect: What It Takes to Be an Architect in the Nineties: A Modest Tirade Mainly for Myself
Letter to Friends about to Visit the Sainbury Wing
The Hall and the Avenue
Toward a Scenographic Architecture for Today: Generic Form with Ordinary-Extraordinary Signs: A Description of the Kirifuri Resort Project in Nikko
Imagery via Lighting and Electronics for Loker Commons, Memorial Hall, Harvard University
Whitehall Ferry Terminal - Plus Ca Change...Encore - A Somewhat Intemperate Response to Current Criticism of the Whitehall Ferry Design
Thoughts on the Architecture of the Scientific Workplace Community, Change, and Continuity
From Invention to Convention in Architecture
Note on the Beloved Princeton Campus as a Basis for a Proposed Planning Study
More Thoughts on Context and Function: The American Campus in the American Town
General Thoughts Concerning Designing for Architecture on American Campuses
Being Repulsive: As I Travel I See Elements of Buildings from My Hotel Window That Originated in My/Our Work and Have Been Exploited All Over
Windows - c. '65
Architecture as Elemental Shelter, the City as Valid Decon
Window vs. Trend: The Current Academization of American Architectural Education
The Vision Thing: Why It Sucks
"Ceci Tuera Cela" Is Now "Cela Est Devenu Ceci": Some Thoughts Concerning Architecture and Media
Letter to the Editor of the Architectural Review, February 17, 1987
Letter to R. Craig Miller, Curator of the Department of Design and Architecture at the Denver Art Museum
Letter Not Sent to an Architecture Critic
J'Adore St. Paul's
Mals Mots: Aphorisms - Sweet and Sour - by an Anti-Hero Architect
Introduction to My M.F.A. Thesis
Contest in Architectural Composition: M.F.A. Thesis, Princeton University