TY  - BOOK
AU  - Venturi, Robert
AU  - Brown, D. Scott 
TI  - Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture
SN  - 9780870702822
U1  - ARCH 
PY  - 1999///
CY  - .
PB  - Thames and Hudson
KW  - Architecture
KW  - Urban Planning and Development
N1  - Cities are among the most enduring and remarkable of human artefacts. This study explains how and why cities took the shape they did. Professor Kostof focuses on a number of themes - organic patterns, the grid, the city as diagram, the grand manner and the skyline - and interprets the hidden order of urban patterns. Photographs, historical views and specially commissioned drawings depict a global mosaic of citybuilding: the shaping of medieval Siena; the creation of New Delhi as the crown of the Raj; the remodelling of Moscow as the self-styled capital of world socialism and the transformation of the skyline as religious and civic symbols yield to the towers of corporate business
ER  -