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1 VE. URI, UCH &SCOTTBRO N Buildings and Projects

2 lsiilulo Unlversltarlo Archflettura Venezia M 113 Servizio B1bl1ogrof1co Aud1ovisivo e di Documentazione

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4 Contents \ ~. " Foreword - # 8 "New Brutalism" and the Aesthetics of Ugliness 62 The City as a Stage 63 Populism and Popularity 67 Part I: The Challenge of the Status Quo 5 Points on the Architecture of VRSB 9 1 History and "Common Sense" The Architect as Observer Perception and Analysis of Form Functionalism and Social Concern The Iconography of "Marginal Man" 2 Anatomy of a "Decorated Shed" The Guild House Pastiche "Transparency," Symbolism, and "Broken Form": Some Critical Reactions to the Guild House 28 "Bauhaus" or "Our House"? Themes and Variations 32 Aalto's Impact 33 Poche 36 "Inside" Is Not "Outside": The Dialectics of Frontality 39 Portal and Proscenium 41 "Impressionist Architecture"? 42 4 Language Games and Mass Media "Meaning" and "Symbolism" Language Games and Theory of Signs Ceci tuera ce/a Architecture's Abdication? Electronics and Architecture 5 The City as a Stage "Realism" versus "Pop" Part II: Buildings and Projects, Abbreviations 76 1 Urban Design 77 "Urbanism" versus "Urban Design" 77 - Rome and a Welsh Mining Town 79 - Pop Art and Social Science 80 1 Fairmont Park Fountain Competition 86 2 Copley Square Competition 88 3 The Philadelphia Crosstown Community 90 4 Thousand Oaks Civic Center 91 5 California City Planning Study and Urban Design ~~ ~ 6 Benjamin Franklin Parkway Celebration for City Edges Planning Study Franklin Court Galveston Development Project Scranton Murals Jim Thorpe, Mauch Chunk Historic District Study Pennsylvania Avenue Project Washington Avenue Revitalization Plan Republic Square District Master Plan Westway Urban Design Project Times Square Plaza Design Welcome Park Ponte dell' Accademia Marconi Plaza Monument 144 5

5 2 Public Buildings Khulafa Street Residential and Commercial "New Monumentality" and Communal Palaces 145 Building Robert Venturi's Master's Project "Greenlands" Mixed Use Development Interior and Exterior Jacksonville Office Building North Penn Visiting Nurses' Association Headquarters Houses Berkeley Museum and Art Gallery Competition 150 Laboratory Experiments From the Classical 22 Varga-Brigio Medical Office Building 152 to the Picturesque Ideal and Back Again North Canton Town Center Fire Station No Vanna Venturi House National Football Hall of Fame Competition Lieb House Humanities Building Wike House Social Sciences Building D'Agostino House Yale Mathematics Building Competition Trubek and Wislocki Houses Dixwell Fire Station House in Connecticut Allen Art Museum, Oberlin College House in Westchester County Penn State Faculty Club House in Tuckers Town Museum of Arts and Crafts House in Vail Canberra Parliament House Competition Coxe-Hayden Studio Houses State Mosque of Iraq Competition House in Northern Delaware Gordon Wu Hall Lewis Thomas Laboratory for Molecular Biology Laguna Gloria Art Museum Housing 279 Urban Renewal Learning from Levittown 280 I.,! 3 Commercial and Office Buildings Guild House 282 "Ducks" and "Decorated Sheds" Hun School Dormitory Brighton Beach Housing Competition Transportation Square Office Building Wissahickon Avenue Houses _ California City Sales Office IAS Land Development Pro]ect MERBISC Mart Park Regency Condominiums I"""'-.. \ Jazz Club, Houston Chinatown Housing Hotel and Casino in Atlantic City County Federal Savings and Loan Association BEST Products Catalog Showroom Interior Designs and Exhibitions 295 ; 45 ISI Corporation Headquarters 230 \ 46 BASCO Showroom James B. Duke House ~-; 'Y' I. \ ' I '

6 \ :,. ~. "-...' I Grand's Restaurant St. Francis de Sales Church Bicentennial Exhibition "Signs of Life: Symbols in the American City" Two Hundred Years of American Sculpture INA Capital Management Knoll Showroom Princeton University Interior Adaptations George D. Widener Memorial Tree House for the Children's Zoo "High Styles" Exhibition Design Decorative Arts Knoll Furniture Alessi Tea Service 81 A Bureau in William and Mary Style 82 Swid Powell Table Line 83 "Italian Village" Acknowledgments Select Bibliography Short Biographies List of Works and Projects ( ) Index Photo Credits

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Robert Venturi and his Architecture Between the pages, on the walls and under the roof

Paper II Architectuur en Stedenbouw geschiedenis Academie van Bouwkunst Rotterdam Sophia Holst 12/29/2012 Robert Venturi and his Architecture Between the pages, on the walls and under the roof In two short