MoMA announces publication revisiting Robert Venturi`s seminal Architectural Treatise
(Artdaily.org)

The Museum of Modern Art announced the publication of Robert Venturi’s Complexity and Contradiction at Fifty. First published in 1966, Robert Venturi’s Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture, widely considered a foundational text of postmodernism, has become an essential document in architectural theory and criticism. This two-volume box set reintroduces the original edition in facsimile, highlighting Venturi’s idiosyncratic yet visually driven argument. Venturi, a young American architect at the time this book was written, presents his “gentle manifesto” as the conscious manipulation and rejection of what he saw as the purist simplification of much of postwar modernist architecture. Instead, drawing from a multitude of historical examples, he argues for an architecture that is truthful to the