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Each chapter builds on the knowledge of the radical influence it had on architecture and urban design, visual art, and even on history more generally. Published alongside are documents from the Venturi, Scott Brown \u0026amp; Associates Archive at the University of Pennsylvania, as well as an illustrated chronology of the resonance in international media following the publication of Learning from Las Vegas in 1972.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49575620542737,"sku":"GOR013520295","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52687024095505,"sku":"NLS9783858818201","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/3858818208.jpg?v=1751416705"},{"product_id":"venturi-rauch-and-scott-brown-book-stanislaus-von-moos-9780847807437","title":"Venturi, Rauch and Scott Brown","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50370720956689,"sku":"CIN0847807436G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0847807436.jpg?v=1751076575"},{"product_id":"venturi-scott-brown-and-associates-book-stanislaus-von-moos-9781885254979","title":"Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates","description":"Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown are among the world's leading contemporary architects. Their writings, including the seminal books Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture (1966; Venturi) and Learning from Las Vegas (1972; Venturi, Scott Brown, and Steven Izenour), have profoundly influenced architectural thought. The built work of the firm Venturi, Scott Brown \u0026amp; Associates of Philadelphia has had an equally great impact. Through a commitment to a creative understanding of history and the everyday environment and to the use of visual references in the design of buildings, this firm has changed the face of modern architecture. Guild House (1963), the Vanna Venturi House (1963), and Franklin Court (1976), all in Philadelphia, are key examples of a new outlook on the art of building. This landmark monograph -- assembled in collaboration with the architects -- illustrates the firm's work between 1986 and 1998. In his main text, Stanislaus von Moos analyzes the architects' understanding of tradition in relation to the social and urban complexities of our post-industrial, multicultural era. Featured are acclaimed buildings such as the Sainsbury Wing of the National Gallery in London; the Seattle Museum of Art; buildings for such universities and colleges as Princeton, the University of Pennsylvania, Harvard, UCLA, and Dartmouth; and new works, including the San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, the hotel and recreation center in Nikko Kirifuri, Japan, and the administration building for the Département de la Haute-Garonne in Toulouse, France.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":50402647605521,"sku":"CIN1885254970A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51713757380881,"sku":"GOR007061879","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":52152508514577,"sku":"CIN1885254970G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":52410654228753,"sku":"CIN1885254970VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1885254970.jpg?v=1750995724"},{"product_id":"stanislaus-von-moos-and-arthur-ruegg-twentyfive-x-herzog-de-meuron-book-stanislaus-von-moos-9783969991381","title":"Stanislaus von Moos and Arthur Rüegg: Twentyfive x Herzog \u0026 de Meuron","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe reality of architecture is not built architecture. Outside of this state of built\/not built, architecture forms its own reality, comparable to the autonomous reality of a picture or a sculpture. - Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron, 1988\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The complete works of Pritzker Prize-winning Swiss architects Herzog \u0026amp; de Meuron comprise around 600 buildings in nearly 40 countries. This book is a personal selection by Stanislaus von Moos and Arthur Rüegg of 25 of the most important projects from throughout Herzog \u0026amp; de Meuron's career-from Tate Modern in London, the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, the Ricola Storage Building in Laufen to the parking structure at 1111 Lincoln Road in Miami. 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