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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 11 11 12 17 20 "Transparency," Symbolism, and "Broken Form": Some Critical Reactions to the Guild House 28 "Bauhaus" or "Our House"? 30 22 24 25 3 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" 47 48 51 54 57 57 60 61 Part II: Buildings and Projects, 1960-1985 75 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 1976 98 7 City Edges Planning Study 100 8 Franklin Court 104 9 Galveston Development Project 110 10 Scranton Murals 113 11 Jim Thorpe, Mauch Chunk Historic District Study 114 12 Pennsylvania Avenue Project 116 13 Washington Avenue Revitalization Plan 122 14 Republic Square District Master Plan 126 15 Westway Urban Design Project 128 16 Times Square Plaza Design 134 17 Welcome Park 138 18 Ponte dell' Accademia 141 19 Marconi Plaza Monument 144 5
2 Public Buildings 145 47 Khulafa Street Residential and Commercial "New Monumentality" and Communal Palaces 145 Building 234 - Robert Venturi's Master's Project 146 48 "Greenlands" Mixed Use Development 236 - Interior and Exterior 146 49 Jacksonville Office Building 237 20 North Penn Visiting Nurses' Association Headquarters 148 4 Houses 239 21 Berkeley Museum and Art Gallery Competition 150 Laboratory Experiments 240 - From the Classical 22 Varga-Brigio Medical Office Building 152 to the Picturesque Ideal and Back Again 241 23 North Canton Town Center 154 24 Fire Station No. 4 158 50 Vanna Venturi House 244 25 National Football Hall of Fame Competition 160 51 Lieb House 249 26 Humanities Building 163 52 Wike House 252 27 Social Sciences Building 168 53 D'Agostino House 254 28 Yale Mathematics Building Competition 172 54 Trubek and Wislocki Houses 256 29 Dixwell Fire Station 177 55 House in Connecticut 260 30 Allen Art Museum, Oberlin College 180 56 House in Westchester County 266 31 Penn State Faculty Club 186 57 House in Tuckers Town 268 32 Museum of Arts and Crafts 190 58 House in Vail 272 33 Canberra Parliament House Competition 195 59 Coxe-Hayden Studio Houses 274 34 State Mosque of Iraq Competition 198 60 House in Northern Delaware 276 35 Gordon Wu Hall 202 36 Lewis Thomas Laboratory for Molecular Biology 208 37 Laguna Gloria Art Museum 212 5 Housing 279 Urban Renewal 279 - Learning from Levittown 280 I.,! 3 Commercial and Office Buildings 215 61 Guild House 282 "Ducks" and "Decorated Sheds" 215 62 Hun School Dormitory 287 63 Brighton Beach Housing Competition 288 38 Transportation Square Office Building 217 64 Wissahickon Avenue Houses _ 290 39 California City Sales Office 220 65 IAS Land Development Pro]ect 291 40 MERBISC Mart 221 66 Park Regency Condominiums I"""'-.. \ 292 41 Jazz Club, Houston 222 67 Chinatown Housing 293 42 Hotel and Casino in Atlantic City 223 43 County Federal Savings and Loan Association 226 44 BEST Products Catalog Showroom 228 6 Interior Designs and Exhibitions 295 ; 45 ISI Corporation Headquarters 230 \ 46 BASCO Showroom 232 68 James B. Duke House 296 6 ~-; 'Y' I. \ ' I '
\ :,. ~. "-...' I -- - 69 Grand's Restaurant 299 70 St. Francis de Sales Church 301 71 Bicentennial Exhibition 303 72 "Signs of Life: Symbols in the American City" 304 73 Two Hundred Years of American Sculpture 308 74 INA Capital Management 309 75 Knoll Showroom 310 76 Princeton University Interior Adaptations 311 77 George D. Widener Memorial Tree House for the Children's Zoo 314 78 "High Styles" Exhibition Design 316 7 Decorative Arts 317 79 Knoll Furniture 318 80 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 (1958-1985) Index Photo Credits 320 321 322 323 324 325 328 329 333 336 7
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