Robert Venturi (1925–2018), Facade Study for Gordon Wu Hall, Butler College, Princeton, 1981. Marker pen ink on trace, 304 × 645 mm. DMC 2041.
Lying on the border between an elevation and a perspective, with a bold delineation of the facade and a vague evocation of the volume it bounds, this sketch seems to reflect — in its manner as in the form it explores — everything Venturi had to say about the weaving together of contradictions, the decisive and the uncertain, to achieve the ‘difficult whole’.
Robert Venturi: The difficult whole
Lying on the border between an elevation and a perspective, with a bold delineation of the facade and a vague evocation of the volume it bounds, this sketch seems to reflect — in its manner as in the form it explores — everything Venturi had to say about the weaving together of contradictions, the decisive and the uncertain, to achieve the ‘difficult whole’.
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Category
drawing techniques & materials commentaries, rants & reflections
Period
c20th
Architect
Robert Venturi
Medium
drawing
Tags
sketch elevation projection (axonometric isometric) commerce