Robert Venturi's Rome / Frederick Fisher and Stephen Harby.

References and includes excerpts from the book "Complexity and contradiction in architecture" by Robert Venturi, published by the Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1966.

Introduction to the watercolors -- A guide to the guide -- The lay of the land -- 1. Nonstraightforward architecture: a gentle manifesto -- 2. Complexity and contradiction vs. simplification and picturesqueness -- 3. Ambiguity -- 4. Contradictory levels: the phenomenon of "both-and" in architecture ambiguity -- 5. Contradictory levels continued: the double-functioning element -- 6. Accommodation and the limitations of order: the conventional element -- 7. Contradition adapted -- 8. Contradiction juxtaposed -- 9. The inside and the outside -- 10. The obligation toward the difficult whole.

"Robert Venturi’s Rome is a guidebook to the city of Rome seen through the eyes of Robert Venturi and re-interpreted by two subsequent Rome Prize fellows and architect, Frederick Fisher and Stephen Harby. Published in 1966, Venturi viewed architecture, landscape, and art as different manifestations of common themes. Fundamental to the develo9pment of any young architects’ outlook on architecture, Venturi wrote this seminal publication following a two-year Rome Prize fellowship at the American Academy in Rome. Many buildings in Rome serve as examples that illustrate his theories, underscoring the city’s profound influence on Venturi’s thinking: from the Pantheon, through works by his favorite artist, Michelangelo, and on to 20th century buildings by Armando Brasini and Luigi Moretti, Venturi reveals Rom as a complex and contradictory city." -- Book jacket.