Venturi Scott Brown And Associates

Also presented are spectacular renovations for the Frank Furness library building at the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard's Memorial Hall and designs for houses, exhibitions, fabrics, furniture, and decorative items. The catalog, written by the architects, focuses on important aspects of their practice in the late 1980s and the 1990s, notably the juxtaposition of a "hype" sensibility in decoration - manifested in large-scale LED signs and colorful supergraphics - and a generic architecture. The introductory essay, by Stanislaus von Moos, discusses five major themes in Venturi and Scott Brown's architecture: its dialogue with their hometown, Philadelphia, as both a national shrine and a center of architectural innovation; the importance of the American campus as a model for planning and design; organicism as a source of their design theory; the role of realism and abstraction in the firm's architecture; and the Venturis' recent interest in Japan and its traditions.

The observer-designer-theorists who analyzed the Las Vegas strip as an archetype in "Learning from Las Vegas" now turn their iconoclastic vision onto their own remarkable partnership and the rule-breaking architecture it has spawned for this fascinating retrospective of their life work.

El estudio de Venturi, Scott Brown and associates ha defendido siempre la arquitectura como fruto de un trabajo colectivo, valorando de forma muy especial la contribucion de numerosos colaboradores en todas sus obras y proyectos. Esta edicion abundantemente ilustrada y documentada ofrece cerca de 100 obras y proyectos nacidos de la colaboracion con numerosos arquitectos, de uno de las producciones arquitectonicas recientes que mas deja sentir su influencia en la arquitectura contemporanea internacional.