Iconography and Electronics upon a Generic Architecture: A View from the Drafting Room

By Robert Venturi

Book Overview

Robert Venturi is the author of Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture and Learning from Las Vegas (the latter co-authored with Denise Scott Brown and Steven Izenour) - the one celebrating complexity in architecture, the other the uses of symbolism in commercial and vernacular architecture and signage. This collection of writings in a variety of genres argues for a generic architecture defined by iconography and electronics, an architecture whose elemental qualities become shelter and symbol.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262220512
• ISBN13: 9780262220514
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: MIT Press (MA)
• Length: 374 Pages
• Weight: 2.33 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 7.4" x 9.4"