“It’s like a gathering to decipher the Talmud,” architectural historian Jean-Louis Cohen observed at a three-day symposium of scholars, architects, and students discussing Robert Venturi’s famous opus, Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture, published 50 years ago.
The well-attended colloquium held at New York’s Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Architectural Archives at the University of Pennsylvania took place November 10 to 12. During the symposium, both the book and its ideas were held up to intense scrutiny. The numerous presenting scholars analyzed the input from Venturi’s coterie of readers and editors to shed new light on the outside influences on this seminal text.
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