Icons of Modernism re-examined

摘要

Of all the ministrations during the post-war death watch of late Modernism, definitively ended with Robert Venturi's Complexity and Contradiction, 'Transparency: Literal and Phenomenal' by Colin Rowe and Robert Slutzky was the last best attempt at revival. This small book encourages us to look at the essay 33 years after its publication, not just historically but for the still topical issue of the relationship between architecture and its influences.