Day: November 30, 2009
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Post Modernism is marvelous!
This Friday is the Centre for Building Research (VUW) symposium on 1980’s architecture. Robert Venturi is the designated Godfather of Po-Mo architecture because the publication of ‘Learning From Las Vegas’ (2nd ed. 1977). But I prefer his earlierĀ treatise, Complexity and Contradiction, where Venturi cites Paul Rudolf’s critique of Mies: All problems can never be…