#books #architecture | Eyes that saw : architecture after Las Vegas

Eyes that saw : architecture after Las Vegas / Stanislaus Von Moos, Martino Stierli (eds.).
Zurich : Schedeigeer and Spiess/Yale School of Architecture, [2020].
501 p. : il.
/ EN / Libros / Arquitectura – Filosofía / Arquitectura – Siglo XX – Estados Unidos / Las Vegas (Nev.) / Robert Venturi

📘 Ed. impresa: ISBN 9783858818201
Cita APA-7: Moos, Stanislaus von, & Stierli, Martino (eds.) (2020). Eyes that saw : architecture after Las Vegas. Schedeigeer and Spiess/Yale School of Architecture.
ehuBiblioteka BCG A-72.01 EYE
https://ehu.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1159896930

[.en] At the peak of the 1968/69 students' riots at American Universities, Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown, together with Steven Izenour, pursued their Design and Research Studio on the topic of Las Vegas at Yale School of Architecture. The results of this were condensed into the book Learning from Las Vegas that became a classic almost instantly upon its first publication in 1972. The treatise excited the 1970s architecture world and has remained influential to architects, teachers and theoreticians to the present day.

 

Some forty years later, Eyes that Saw: Architecture after Las Vegas offers a richly illustrated collection of essays by renowned scholars of art and architectural history, eminent architects, and artists, investigating Learning from Las Vegas and its heritage from various perspectives. Each chapter builds on the knowledge of the radical influence it had on architecture and urban design, visual art, and even on history more generally. Published alongside are documents from the Venturi, Scott Brown & Associates Archive at the University of Pennsylvania, as well as an illustrated chronology of the resonance in international media following the publication of Learning from Las Vegas in 1972.

#books #architecture | The difficult whole : a reference book on Robert Venturi, John Rauch and Denise Scott Brown

The difficult whole : a reference book on Robert Venturi, John Rauch and Denise Scott Brown / edited by Kersten Geers, Jelena Pančevac, and Andrea Zanderigo ; [photography, Bas Princen].
Park Books, Zurich : 2016.
216 p.
ISBN 9783906027845
Venturi, Rauch and Scott Brown
Venturi, Robert, 1925.
Venturi Scott Brown & Associates.
Arquitectura -- Siglo XX.
Sbc Aprendizaje A-72VENTURI DIF
http://millennium.ehu.es/record=b1854471~S1*spi

In 1966, architect Robert Venturi published ‘Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture’, a manifesto that became one of the twentieth century’s most important statements about architecture. Drawing on both vernacular and high-style sources, Venturi introduced new lessons from the buildings of architects who were well known, like Michelangelo and Alvar Aalto, and those whose work had then been forgotten, like Frank Furness and Edwin Lutyens. Arguing against the diagrammatic forms that dominated the field at that time, Venturi made a case instead for “the difficult whole.”

Fifty years later, this book offers a fresh analysis and thorough reevaluation of Venturi’s landmark work and its legacy. Through a radical rereading of material from the archives of Venturi, Scott Brown, and Associates, the editors propose a credible alternative to contemporary architectural discourse, one that takes account of Venturi’s arguments and offers a way forward. Featuring essays, as well as close analyses of twenty-eight projects by Venturi, Rauch and Scott Brown, ‘The Difficult Whole’ is sure to spark discussion—and inspiration—throughout the worlds of architecture and design.