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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Robert Venturi"”.
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Boredom's Metamorphosis: Robert Venturi and Saul Steinberg
… of two figures: the American-Italian architect Robert Venturi (b. 1925) and the Romanian-born American architect and artist Saul Steinberg (1914-1999). The topic of boredom in architecture, and specifically within this timeframe, has been largely ignored in architectural history, theory, and …
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An aquatic and racquet center for the Federal City
… that experience which is inherent in art. Robert Venturi²
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An artists' community in Georgetown: a study of the dialectical relationship between the general and the particular in architecture
… door once again to an urbanistic point of view. Robert Venturi It is the role of design to adjust to the circumstantial. Louis Kahn The existential purpose of building (architecture) is therefore to make a site become a place, that is, to uncover the meanings potentially present in the …
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Pastiche as technique : inside an American palace
… pioneered by architects like Michael Graves, Robert Venturi and Charles Jencks -- through a renovation that reinstates a movie palace into a 99 cent store in Williamsburg Brooklyn. Instead of concentrating on the facade like postmodern architecture of the past, however, this thesis turns these …
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GLOBOCRACIA La Torre como Infraestructura de Esfericidades Entrelazadas
… la complejidad y contradicción de las que habla Robert Venturi: “An architecture which includes varying levels of meaning breeds ambiguity and tension”. La multiplicidad de significados es algo propio de la ciudad que el Hyperbuilding aspira a mantener, por lo que la tesis busca estudiar la …
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Considerations for Contemporary Design and Land Use Within Existing Historical Context
… should ever be considered unimportant. As Robert Venturi said in his “Gentle Manifesto”, a designer should strive towards “messy vitality over obvious unity” (Venturi, 1966). Finding a simple design resolution is difficult if not impossible in a complex urban city layered with centuries of …
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Thinking, Seeing, Practicing Architecture: From The Smithsons To Scott Brown And Venturi
… in relation to that of Denise Scott Brown and Robert Venturi to reveal a shared attitude toward “the real.” I argue that each couple utilized a mode of visual research that was inspired by the social sciences; each relied on straightforward photographic documentation to represent their …
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Architectural form from human nature
… Louis I. Kahn, Peter and Allison Smithson and Robert Venturi are evolving a theory of architecture based on human nature and that the accommodation of human nature is a prime determinate of architectural form and that the nature of the human mind is a prime determinate of one's understanding of …
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On layering motion
… no merchandise. [there are signs instead]" - Robert Venturi Learning from Las Vegas When the automobile is given the place of honor, the sign is more important than the experience. The speed at the motorist scale does not allow for any experience other than symbol or sign. This reduces the …
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L'eredità di Aldo Rossi nella Penisola Iberica. La costruzione della città e il progetto contemporaneo
… e Comlejidad y contradiccion en arquitectura di Robert Venturi nel 1972. Entrambi fondamentali per il modo di affrontare determinate tematiche di cui sempre più in quegli anni si stava interessando la cultura architettonica iberica, diventando così ¬ testi di riferimento anche nelle scuole. Le …