A catalog: “Main street is almost alright” Robert Venturi and Denise

A catalog: “Main street is almost alright” Robert Venturi and Denise

A catalog: “Main street is almost alright”
Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown, Vanna Venturi House, 1966, near
Philadelphia, PA
.
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Compositional balance on garden façade is achieved via unbalanced individual
elements
Interior living room and staircase
Venturi’s “Duck” vs. “Decorated Shed” concept (1968) (Gerhard Kallmann and
Michael McKinnell, Boston City Hall, 1963-1968, may have been what they had
in mind when they sketched their cartoon duck/building)
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Martin Maurer, retail shop for ducks and duck eggs, 1930s, Eastern Long Island
Robert Venturi and
Denise Scott Brown,
unbuilt project for a
Football Hall of Fame,
1970
The building as
decorated shed
Phillip Johnson, AT&T Headquarters, New York City, 1984
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Peter Eisenman, House VI,
1970, Connecticut
‘First floor of
Schröder
House’
Gerrit
Rietveld
(1888–1964)
Netherlands
1924
Pencil, ink,
watercolour
on collotype
83.5 x
86.8cm
Centraal
Museum,
Utrecht
Le Corbusier, Pavilion de Esprit Nouveau, Paris, 1925
4
Peter Eisenman, study diagrams for House VI; contemporary study of window
glazing and circulation
Richard Meier, Getty Center, Los Angeles,
1986-96
Charles Moore’s Piazza d’Italia, New Orleans, 1975-79
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Charles Moore’s Piazza d’Italia, New Orleans, 1975-79
.
James Stirling and
Michael Wolford’s New
State Gallery (“Neue
Staatsgalerie”) in
Stuttgart, Germany, 1984
6
Site plan and plan of Neue Staatsgalerie compared with plan of Le Corbusier’s
Palace of Assembly in Chandigarh
Quotations from classical planning, but also modern movements like hi-tech
and buildings like the Pompidou Centre and the Johnson Wax Building by
Frank Lloyd Wright (1938, below right)
.
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Aldo Rossi, Casa Aurora, Turin, Italy, 1987
Aldo Rossi, Casa Aurora, Turin, Italy, 1987
Aldo Rossi, Casa Aurora, Turin, Italy, 1987
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Aldo Rossi, Casa Aurora, Turin, Italy, 1987, detail of cornice
Rob Krier, Apartment block for Ritterstrasse, Berlin, 1977-88
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