Sunday, October 1, 2006

Architectural Theroies

Today we're gonna learn all about Phillip Johnson, so you can better understand my lame, lame joke.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Johnson

Phillip johnson was a very interesting architect, while never really having anything particularly orginal, you could always count on him to load up the movements, package them and tour about. Just like a ringleader.....or costco.


http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/40704350/



oh but we are trying to get my heroes:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Venturi

AND/OR

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denise_Scott_Brown

to speak at Philadelphia University
here are the things that i like best about Robert Venturi

http://www.pritzkerprize.com/venturi.htm

http://www.amazon.com/Learning-Las-Vegas-Forgotten-Architectural/dp/026272006X/sr=1-1/qid=1159735750/ref=pd_bbs_1/102-3719014-0122569?ie=UTF8&s=books

http://www.amazon.com/Robert-Venturi-Complexity-Contradiction-Architecture/dp/0870702823/sr=1-1/qid=1159735816/ref=pd_bbs_1/102-3719014-0122569?ie=UTF8&s=books

http://www.vsba.com/

http://www.aroots.org/notebook/IMG/jpg/doc-148.jpg

man...they're so awesome.