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Allen Art Museum Addition Commentary "Pink granite and red sandstone cladding were used to create a decorative facade that plays composite elements against the whole in a reinterpretation of the main building's character. Venturi says: 'we tried to harmonize with his masterpiece in ways not too obvious.' "The long 'International Style' strip windows of the school and workshop wing make for an uninteresting facade, as the architects themselves acknowledge, since it was intended to simulate loft buildings that house studios for artists and to please the occupants by not infringing on their creativity by an excess of architectural zeal." "A house constructed for a young couple who wanted to house their collection of Pop Art paintings and Art Deco objects and accommodate their growing family. The site is 30 acres, serenely beautiful, flat, open and lightly wooded. The gallery serves for general circulation, upstairs and down, for occasional formal dining, and incidentally for some of the big paintings in the collection; but its main purpose is to create spaciousness inside."The south elevation has a contrapuntal rhythm of doors and windows recalling a plain Georgian country house, but the green glazed
conclusionArchitecture is a profession about wood, bricks, stones, steel and glass. Venturi looked with fresh eyes at the architectural landscape of America and described the inherent honesty and beauty of ordinary buildings. Venturi is an architect whose work cannot be categorized; to him, there is never a single solution. Its long shape and central position make it a visual hyphen that connects the dormitoreis and unites them. It is also an art form that is based on words, ideas and conceptual frameworks. The monumental street facade alludes to Michaelangelo's Porta Pia in Rome and the back wall of the Nymphaeum at Palladio and Alessandro Vittoria's Villa Barbaro at Maser. My view pointsHe share a same view view with me which is when he was young, a sure way to distinguish great architects was through the consistency and originality of their work. He also worked in the offices of Louis I. But Venturi's architecture changes my view on simplicity eventually after I went through his works. Lest anyone try to pigeon-hole him as a postmodernist, he declared that he was practicing modern architecture, and paraphrased his own words earlier about Main Street, "the modern movement was almost all right. I suggest applying two or more colors should be better due to the house is for his mother to stay in. The brick, limestone trim, and strip windows adhere to the entrance, set off-center and broadside in the building, is marked by a bold marble and gray granite panel recalling early Renaissance ornament and symbolizing the entrance to the College as a whole as well as to the building itself.
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