Venturi, Scott Brown, and Associates
Subtitle: Buildings and Projects, 1986-1997
Publisher: Monacelli
Published: February 21, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9781580930017
Subjects: Individual architects; c 1980 to c 1990; c 1990 to c 2000; United States; Individual Architect; Architecture; Venturi Scott Brown and Associ; Architectural Firms; Public, Commercial, or Industrial Buildings; U.S. Architecture - General; Architecture / Project Management; 20th century; Venturi Scott Brown and Associates
First sentence: Looking out over the roofs of Manayunk, an old mill town northwest of central Philadelphia, "disfigured" by industrial "blight," one cannot help thinking of the brick structures, chimneys, painted signs, water tanks, and electric wires of Charles Demuth's mesmerizingly airy views from his home in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, painted between 1920 and 1933 (fig. 3).