Out of the Ordinary: Architecture/Urbanism/Design - Couverture rigide

Brownlee, David B.; Long, David De; Hiesinger, Kathryn B.

 
9780300089950: Out of the Ordinary: Architecture/Urbanism/Design
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0300089953 ISBN 13 : 9780300089950
Editeur : Yale University Press, 2001

Synopsis

This engaging book presents the first critical retrospective look at the extraordinary architectural achievement of Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown, and their firm. Known for such prominent buildings as the Sainsbury Wing at the National Gallery in London and the Seattle Art Museum as well as such major urban revitalisation plans as Washington Avenue in Miami and South Street in Philadelphia, Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates changed the face of architectural history. This husband and wife team rejected the universality of modernist design for a particularised contextual and associational approach to building, lauding the "complexity and contradictions" in the historic citycape and "learning from Las Vegas" the value and vitality of the everyday environment. The book, which combines both biography and critical analysis, includes essays on the firm's early and later architectural works and on their lesser-known decorative arts. It also features handsome colour plates of the firm's buildings, architectural drawings, and furniture and other decorative arts, as well as a checklist of all their buildings and projects. The catalogue accompanies a major exhibition that opens at the Philadelphia Museum of Art in June of 2001 and then travels to the Museum of Contemporary Art in La Jolla, California; and the Heinz Architectural Center in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

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À propos de l?auteur

David Brownlee is professor of the history of art at the University of Pennsylvania. David De Long is professor of architecture at the University of Pennsylvania. Kathryn B. Hiesinger is curator of European decorative arts at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

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Éditeur
Yale University Press
Date d'édition
2001
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0300089953
ISBN 13 
9780300089950
Reliure
Relié
Numéro d'édition
1
Nombre de pages
296
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
non disponible

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9780876331484: Out of the Ordinary: Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown and Associates Architecture, Urbanism, Design

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0876331487 ISBN 13 :  9780876331484
Editeur : Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2001
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