Robert Venturi
Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture.
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1966. The Museum of Modern Art Papers on Architecture, 1. First edition. With an introduction by Vincent Scully. 135 pages.
Volume, measuring approximately 6.25" x 8.25", is bound in gray cloth, with black lettering to spine. Book is in fine condition, with firm binding, clean and bright pages. Dust jacket, with price of $4.95 on front flap, displays shelfwear, with light soiling and small closed tear at head of spine panel.
"First published in 1966, and since translated into 16 languages, this remarkable book has become an essential document of architectural literature. A "gentle manifesto for a nonstraightforward architecture," Venturi’s "Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture" expresses in the most compelling and original terms the postmodern rebellion against the purism of modernism. Three hundred and fifty architectural photographs serve as historical comparisons and illuminate the author's ideas on creating and experiencing architecture. "Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture" was the winner of the Classic Book Award at the AIA's Seventh Annual International Architecture Book Awards."