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architecture.mnp (Free subscription) | 08/15/2008
http://www.archpaper.com/e-board_rev.asp?News_ID=2462 Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown changed the way we think about Vegas, but the city they loved and wrote about so compellingly has changed almost beyond recognition, and will keep on doing so. Its latest metamorphosis is a startling one: high-rise density oriented toward pedestrians. Is this urbanism drag, or can CityCenter successfully bring...
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Ed Driscoll.com (Free subscription) | 07/15/2008
(Or, Complexity And Contradictions in Postmodern Democratic Architecture, to borrow from Robert Venturi.) Betsy Newmark notes that in his recent Time column on rich liberals voting against their class interests, Michael Kinsley "contradicts the whole Thomas Frank thesis from What's...
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Global Intellect (Free subscription) | 05/28/2008
T-Dream is Alessi’s collection of tees featuring graphics designed by eight world-renowned designers produced to benefit the children's rights organization Amici dei Bambini. Designers include Robert Venturi (pictured left) Martí Guixé, Michael Graves, Philippe Starck and Aldo Rossi (pictured right). The designs themselves, all represented in dream bubbles, range from the fanciful like Rossi’s Leaning...
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COOL HUNTING (Free subscription) | 05/28/2008
T-Dream is Alessi's collection of tees featuring graphics designed by eight world-renowned designers produced to benefit the children's rights organization Amici dei Bambini. Designers include Robert Venturi (pictured left) Martí Guixé, Michael Graves, Philippe Starck and Aldo Rossi (pictured right). The designs themselves, all represented in dream bubbles, range from the fanciful like Rossi's Leaning...
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Archinect (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
Steven Song is a young architect in NYC who has written an article named "Shifting Paradigms: Renovating the Decorated Shed." It explores theories discussed in Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown's latest book, Architecture as Signs and Systems: For a Mannerist Time , which revisits the dual quality of Architecture as signage and shelter in the post-industrial information age. Learning from recent...
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Archinect (Free subscription) | 04/30/2008
Robert Venturi exploded onto the architectural scene in 1966 with a radical call to arms in Complexity and Contradiction. Further accolades and outrage ensued in 1972 when Venturi and Denise Scott Brown (along with Steven Izenour) analyzed the Las Vegas strip as an archetype in Learning from Las Vegas. Now, for the first time, these two observer-designer-theorists turn their iconoclastic vision onto...
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Archinect (Free subscription) | 04/10/2008
"He conceded little; admired less; railed against Los Angeles; ploughed through the massive published set of Le Corbusier sketches and found them "worthless"; assailed Robert Venturi, Michael Graves, and Frank Gehry as slaves to "superficial effect"; accused Richard Neutra of simply reproducing the same idea for every setting." LAT
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Milwaukee Streets (Free subscription) | 04/02/2008
Before I started this blog, I made a few posts about Milwaukee on my St. Louis blog . I'm reposting them here where they're more relevant. This one went up on April 1, 2006 . Milwaukee has a nice collection of 1950s-1960s era Modernist churches, which make for a nice around-the-town tour as they're scattered across the inner suburbs and newer areas of the old city. Click on any of the photos to view...
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Apartment Therapy - Chicago (Free subscription) | 03/28/2008
Wright Auction House is holding the Modern Design auction this Sunday, March 30 at noon sharp. We've been poring over the auction catalog and choosing our picks from the fifties, sixties and seventies
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Harvard University Press Publicity (Free subscription) | 02/12/2008
We see from Princeton Alumni Weekly that three HUP authors are mentioned in connection with their project to seek out the "most influential" Princeton alumni of all time. So congrats to John Rawls (six-time HUP author who likely needs no...
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Design Observer: Main Posts (Free subscription) | 01/27/2008
Dmitri Siegel visits Venturi, Scott Brown and Izenour's post-modern classic Guild House in Philadelphia and rereads Learning from Las Vegas .
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Maggie's Farm (Free subscription) | 01/18/2008
City Journal has a fresh new look and format. In it, Architecture's Rogues Gallery by Kimball, who rips the narcissism of the famous architects of today. A quote: Philip Johnson. Robert Venturi. Hassan Fathy. Peter Eisenman. Charles Jencks. Bernard Tschumi. Rem Koolhaus. Daniel Liebeskind. Norman Foster. Frank Gehry. Sykes has rounded up a rogues’ gallery of brittle egotism in which contempt for the...
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Light reading (Free subscription) | 12/29/2007
Several different prompts recently reminded me of an anecdote which I now feel licensed to relate, somewhat at my brothers' expense (but they will forgive me, it is an older sister's prerogative, just those couple years' advantage leads to all sorts of unfair benefits like always being the one to win at monopoly, at least until a brother who shall remain nameless would grow so frustrated--all our games...
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Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 12/19/2007
By Jahn, Wolf HAMBURG Yesim Akdeniz Graf PRODUZENTENGALERIE The notion of authentic experience no longer enjoys the status it once did, not even in art. Even the word authenticity sounds a bit odd in today's cultural climate.
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news views and analysis (Free subscription) | 12/05/2007
I visited Las Vegas the first time in the summer of 2000 with my family. Since that first visit, it has continued to fascinate me no end. On this my fourth visit to the city, it came across as a metropolis maturing fast and in many ways still being the same old icon of the [...]
