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Flows from early Modernism into the Interior Streets of Venturi, Rauch and Scott Brown

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 May 2010

Karin Theunissen
Karin Theunissen
Affiliation:
Assistant professor, Delft University of Technology, Faculty of Architecture, Julianalaan 134, 2628 BL Delft, The Netherlands, [email protected]
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In 1972 the famous diagram of the ‘Decorated Shed’ was introduced into the architectural discourse; it implied a definition of ‘architecture as shelter with decoration on it’ [1]. The diagram was part of urban research into the commercial environment of Las Vegas that was interpreted by the researchers – Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown and Steven Izenour – as ‘a new type of urban form’ that they meant ‘to understand’ in order ‘to begin to evolve techniques for its handling’. Yet the critique on this and other research and designs by Venturi, Rauch and Scott Brown focused essentially on questions of form and more specifically of the image of architecture.

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arq: Architectural Research Quarterly , Volume 14 , Issue 1 , March 2010 , pp. 53 - 62
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2010

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