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Faculty members speculated that Jorge S. Silvetti, Robinson professor of architecture, Peter G. Rowe, Garbe professor of architecture and urban design, and William J. Mitchell, Travelstead professor of architecture might be included on the short list.
The Old and the New in Architecture: No Easy Answers--by Eduard Sekler, professor emeritus, GSD. Sanders Theatre, Memorial Hall, 6 p.m.
Robert Venturi, the man who launched architectural Postmodernism a quarter- century ago, is not exactly unsung: only a few of his living peers are better known, and none has been credited with more deeply influencing the way houses and cityscapes look. Still, Venturi and Denise Scott Brown, his wife and...
That sounds familiar -- and, sure enough, he used it in his seminal book, Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture, to describe one of his early buildings. Complexity and Contradiction was a galvanizing manifesto, liberating architects from Modernist, minimalist dogma. "Less is a bore," Venturi declared, meaning that it was time to...
Scully's message is compelling, especially to an urban audience that, he claims, has forgotten how to experience and appreciate the dynamic dialectic of nature and human creation in architecture. These books offer a powerful lesson in awareness--they speak of hints of Paradise Spun into the fabric of everyday...