Out of the Ordinary : Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown and Associates-Architecture, Urbanism, Design

by David Brownlee, David G. De Long, and Kathryn B. Hiesinger; Checklist of project

• ISBN13: 9780300089950
• ISBN10: 0300089953
• Format: Trade Book
• Copyright: 2001-07-11
• Publisher: Yale University Press

Summary

This engaging book presents the first critical retrospective look at the extraordinary architectural achievement of Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown, and their firm. Known for such prominent buildings as the Sainsbury Wing at the National Gallery in London and the Seattle Art Museum as well as such major urban revitalization plans as Washington Avenue in Miami and South Street in Philadelphia, Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates changed the face of architectural history.

This husband and wife team rejected the universality of modernist design for a particularized contextual and associational approach to building, lauding the "complexity and contradictions" in the historic cityscape and "learning from Las Vegas" the value and vitality of the everyday environment.

The book, which combines both biography and critical analysis, includes essays on the firm's early and later architectural works and on their lesser-known decorative arts. It also features handsome color plates of the firm's buildings, architectural drawings, and furniture and other decorative art

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Anne d'Harnoncourt
Form and Content	2	(88)
David B. Brownlee
Seeking a Rational Mannerism	90	(92)
David G. De Long
Decorative Art and Interiors	182	(62)
Kathryn B. Hiesinger
Chronology	244	(9)
Diane L. Minnite
Project List	253	(16)
William Whitaker
Selected Bibliography	269	(1)
Acknowledgments	270	(2)
Index of Proper Names	272