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Stanley Tigerman

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Rizzoli

Buildings and Projects, 1966-1989

Architects are rarely invited into the theological debate the way scientists often and artists sometimes are, this despite the obvious analogies between design and Design. Even when they are designing places of worship, the shape of their own faith is given no special place, nor the theological implications of what they are doing regardless of faith. (Indeed, mention "architecture" and "religion" or "God" in the same sentence, and the mind automatically flips to churchs and synagogues, and then to fifty cliche forms.) The idea behind this volume was to blaze a new trail in thinking rationally about religion, theology, and everyday life. It opens, new avenues of debate and discussion about the meaning of religious faith in the 21st century. For not only architects, of course, but also film-makers, writers, composers, painters, scientists, institution-builders, and inventors create-design-with similar if not the same ethical constraints and incentives. The desire of everyman to be creatively involved in life is, we submit, an essentially religious desire. Understanding why and how this is so through architecture might make this clearer to all, and more realizable.

CENTER, Volume 15: Divinity, Creativity, Complexity

Michael Benedikt

Thomas Fisher

William S. Saunders

Michael Ruse

Charles Jencks

John F. Haught

Richard Becherer

Tom Spector

William C. Richards

Sheryl Tucker de Vasquez

Jin Baek

Alvaro Malo

Center for American Architecture and Design

Now available in its original edition along with critical commentary, Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture is the founding text of postmodernism in architecture
First published in 1966, Robert Venturi’s Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture, widely considered the foundational text of postmodernism, has become an essential document in architectural theory and criticism. This new two-volume boxed set presents a facsimile of the original edition paired with a compendium of new scholarship on and around Venturi’s seminal treatise. The ten selected essays, a number of which were presented at a three-day international conference co-organized by MoMA to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Complexity and Contradiction in 2016, address diverse issues, such as the book’s relationship to Venturi’s own built oeuvre and its significance in the contemporary landscape. Additional short commentaries by contemporary practitioners attest to Complexity’s enduring influence on architectural practice. Together, these two volumes expand the horizons of―and introduce a new generation to―Venturi’s “gentle manifesto.”

Complexity and Contradiction at Fifty: Robert Venturi's "Gentle Manifesto": A Symposium

Robert Venturi

Stanislaus Von Moos

Emmanuel Petit

Jean-Louis Cohen

Lee Ann Custer

Peter Fröhlicher

Diane Harris

Andrew Leach

Mary McLeod

Joan Ockman

The Museum of Modern Art, New York

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