"The city street facade can provide a type of juxtaposed contradiction that is essentially two-dimensional. Frank Furness' Clearing House (1884), now demolished like many of his best works in Philadelphia, contained an array of violent pressures within a rigid frame."
"The city street facade can provide a type of juxtaposed contradiction that is essentially two-dimensional. Frank Furness' Clearing House (1884), now demolished like many of his best works in Philadelphia, contained an array of violent pressures within a rigid frame."
"The city street facade can provide a type of juxtaposed contradiction that is essentially two-dimensional. Frank Furness' Clearing House (1884), now demolished like many of his best works in Philadelphia, contained an array of violent pressures within a rigid frame."
"The city street facade can provide a type of juxtaposed contradiction that is essentially two-dimensional. Frank Furness' Clearing House (1884), now demolished like many of his best works in Philadelphia, contained an array of violent pressures within a rigid frame."
"The half-segmental arch, blocked by the submerged tower which, in turn, bisects the facade into a near duality, and the violent adjacencies of rectangles, squares, lunettes, and diagonals of contrasting sizes, compose a building seemingly held up by the buildings next door..."
"The half-segmental arch, blocked by the submerged tower which, in turn, bisects the facade into a near duality, and the violent adjacencies of rectangles, squares, lunettes, and diagonals of contrasting sizes, compose a building seemingly held up by the buildings next door..."
"The half-segmental arch, blocked by the submerged tower which, in turn, bisects the facade into a near duality, and the violent adjacencies of rectangles, squares, lunettes, and diagonals of contrasting sizes, compose a building seemingly held up by the buildings next door..."
"The half-segmental arch, blocked by the submerged tower which, in turn, bisects the facade into a near duality, and the violent adjacencies of rectangles, squares, lunettes, and diagonals of contrasting sizes, compose a building seemingly held up by the buildings next door..."
"It is an almost insane short story of a castle on a city street. All these relationships of structure and pattern contradict the severe limitations associated with a facade, a street line, and contiguous row houses."
-Robert Venturi, Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture
"It is an almost insane short story of a castle on a city street. All these relationships of structure and pattern contradict the severe limitations associated with a facade, a street line, and contiguous row houses."-Robert Venturi, Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture
"It is an almost insane short story of a castle on a city street. All these relationships of structure and pattern contradict the severe limitations associated with a facade, a street line, and contiguous row houses."-Robert Venturi, Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture
"It is an almost insane short story of a castle on a city street. All these relationships of structure and pattern contradict the severe limitations associated with a facade, a street line, and contiguous row houses."-Robert Venturi, Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture
Gonna use this thread to post rare Frank’s. Here's the glam-to-goth transformation of the Provident Life & Trust building (1876)
Gonna use this thread to post rare Frank’s. Here's the glam-to-goth transformation of the Provident Life & Trust building (1876)
Gonna use this thread to post rare Frank’s. Here's the glam-to-goth transformation of the Provident Life & Trust building (1876)
Gonna use this thread to post rare Frank’s. Here's the glam-to-goth transformation of the Provident Life & Trust building (1876)
Gonna use this thread to post rare Frank’s. Here's the glam-to-goth transformation of the Provident Life & Trust building (1876)
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