VENTURI, Robert. Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture. 143 pp. Introduction by Vincent Scully. Illustrated with 350 black and white plates. 8vo., bound in publisher's cloth and dust-wrapper. New York: Museum of Modern Art in association with The Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, Chicago, 1966.

A fine copy of the extremely rare first edition of this landmark publication in the dust wrapper, the spine of which is discoloured, but which is still fine. First published in 1966, and since translated into 16 languages, this remarkable book has become an essential document in architectural literature. Venturi's "gentle manifesto for a nonstraightforward architecture," Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture expresses in the most compelling and original terms the postmodern rebellion against the purism of modernism. Three hundred and fifty architectural photographs serve as historical comparisons and illuminate the author's ideas on creating and experiencing architecture. Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture was the winner of the Classic Book Award at the AIA's Seventh Annual International Architecture Book Awards.

The Museum of Modern Art Papers of Architecture, #1.

Brownlee, David B., David G. DeLong, and Kathryn B. Hiesinger. Out of the Ordinary: The Architecture and Design of VENTURI, SCOTT BROWN. Architecture/Urbanism/Design. Checklist of projects and buildings by William Whitaker, chronology by Diane L. Minnite; 278 pp., over 400 colour and b&w illustrations. 4to, cloth. Philadelphia, Museum of Art, in association with New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 2001.
The first retrospective survey of the architectural achievements of Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown, and their firm.

VENTURI, ROBERT and Denise Scott Brown. Architecture as Signs and Systems for a Mannerist Time. ix and 252 pp., 389 color and b&w illustrations. 4to, cloth-backed boards. Cambridge, MA, and London, The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2004.

VENTURI, ROBERT, DENISE SCOTT BROWN & STEVEN IZENOUR. Learning from Las Vegas. 189 pp. with 240 illus., many in color, large folio, cloth with printed glassine wrapper. Cambridge, M.I.T. Press, 1972.

First edition. A seminal and controversial book, rarely found in a dust jacket. In 1968, Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown, and Steven Izenour taught a third year studio graduate class at Yale that would have great implications on the study architecture in the postmodern era. The class was called "Learning from Las Vegas, or Form Analysis as Design Research." There were thirteen students in total. In the end, their work would comprise the basis for the landmark architectural work Learning from Las Vegas, authored by Venturi, Brown, and Izenour, but compiled, researched and photographed by the students themselves "The first part of this book is a description of our study of the architectur of the commercial strip. Part II is a generalization on symbolism in architecture and the iconography of urban sprawl. Part III describes the wor of Venturi and Rauch from 1965 to mid-1971."