The Difficult Whole: A Reference Book on the Work of Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3906027848
• ISBN13: 9783906027845
• Release Date: September 2016
• Publisher: Park Publishing (WI)
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 2.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 8.4" x 11.9"