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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.
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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Librería: Gulf Coast Books, Memphis, TN, Estados Unidos de America
hardcover. Condición: Good. Nº de ref. del artículo: 0300089953-3-32394599
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Librería: ThriftBooks-Dallas, Dallas, TX, Estados Unidos de America
Hardcover. Condición: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 3.7. Nº de ref. del artículo: G0300089953I3N00
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Librería: Project HOME Books, Philadelphia, PA, Estados Unidos de America
Condición: Good. End homelessness in Philadelphia! Your purchase creates jobs! hardcover Used - Good Ships fast! 2001 - First Edition. Nº de ref. del artículo: oversized-001365
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Librería: Better World Books, Mishawaka, IN, Estados Unidos de America
Condición: Very Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects. Nº de ref. del artículo: 15422844-6
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Librería: HPB Inc., Dallas, TX, Estados Unidos de America
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Librería: Book Bear, West Brookfield, MA, Estados Unidos de America
Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. 277 pp. Tightly bound. The tips of the top corners are lightly dinged. Text is free of markings. No ownership markings. Very good dust jacket. This copy is smyth sewn. Smyth sewing is a method of bookbinding where groups of folded pages (referred to as signatures) are stitched together using binder thread. Each folded signature is sewn together individually with multiple stitches and then joined with other signatures to create the complete book block. This is the traditional and best method of bookbinding. Nº de ref. del artículo: 030833
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Librería: ANARTIST, New York, NY, Estados Unidos de America
Hardcover with dustjacket 278 pages, very good condition except dj only good with a few scratches; edges of boards lightly bumped in a couple places; no internal marks. Foreign shipping may be extra. Nº de ref. del artículo: OuVeYa10.1
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Librería: Midtown Scholar Bookstore, Harrisburg, PA, Estados Unidos de America
Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. unmarked, light shelfwear-NICE Oversized. Nº de ref. del artículo: 0300089953-01
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Librería: Eric James, Lewisporte, NL, Canada
Hard Cover. Condición: As New. Estado de la sobrecubierta: As New. First Edition. NEW oversized hardcover with dust jacket, still in publisher's original shrink wrap, x + 277 pages; extensively and lavishly illustrated in full colour and black-and-white. [this copy priced low, priced to go to a good home as bookseller is nearing retirement, but extra S & H at cost will be requested]. Nº de ref. del artículo: 045469
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Librería: Barker Books & Vintage, Helena, MT, Estados Unidos de America
Hardcover. First edition. Near fine oversized cloth hardcover with light bumping at corners in near fine lightly rubbed jacket with trace of wear at corners as well. Remains an attractive copy of this critical retrospective published in cooperation with the Philadelphia Museum of Art of the work of Venturi, Brown, and Associates that features 270 color plates and 184 black & white reproductions. Near Fine in Near Fine Dust Jacket. Nº de ref. del artículo: 8396
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