08-22-2014, 06:27 AM
Robert Venturi Vanna Venturi House, Philadelphia, PA, 1964
Venturi designs this building for his mother. The design of the building embodies several “complexities and contradictions”: it is both complex and simple, open and closed, big and little; some of its elements are good on one level and bad on another; its order accommodates the generic elements of the house in general, and the circumstantial elements of a house in particular. It achieves the difficult unity of a medium number of diverse parts rather than the easy unity of few or many motival parts.
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Venturi designs this building for his mother. The design of the building embodies several “complexities and contradictions”: it is both complex and simple, open and closed, big and little; some of its elements are good on one level and bad on another; its order accommodates the generic elements of the house in general, and the circumstantial elements of a house in particular. It achieves the difficult unity of a medium number of diverse parts rather than the easy unity of few or many motival parts.