ROBERT VIENTURI
This new collection of writings in a variety of genres argues for a generic architecture defined by iconography and electronics, an architecture whose elemental qualities become shelter and symbol.
The essays include Venturi's 1950 M.F.A. thesis, published here for the first time a work that foreshadows many of the themes that were later to make him a controversial and ground-breaking architect and writer and a series of vintage Venturi aphorisms.