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"In the 1960s, American architect Robert Venturi made a case for the difficult whole, opposing mainstream modern architecture that ignores all the intricacies of life and produces pure space, or ""easy unity"". The architecture Venturi was aiming for embraces diversities, inevitable in any project. This new book, edited by Architecture Without Content, a research group at Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne's School of Architecture, offers a fresh analysis and a thorough re-evaluation of Venturi s idea of ""the difficult whole"" as both a looking glass and a possible tool for architecture today. Through a radical re-reading of found material from the Venturi Scott Brown archives, the editors seek to propose a credible alternative to contemporary architectural discourse. Its format combines the ambiguity of interpretation with the factual material, keeping the precision of the argument. This elusive position is elaborated in essays, complemented by interviews with Kazunari Sakamoto and Alvaro Siza.Around 35 projects by Venturi Scott Brown, and also by Alvaro Siza and James Stirling, form a visual narrative with original plans and sections and other archive material as well as new perspective images and photographs especially produced for this book."

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Architecture Without Content is a research group within the Laboratory for Architecture as Form at Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne's (EPFL) School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering (ENAC). Kersten Geers, born 1975, graduated in Architecture and Urbanism from University of Ghent and Esquela Tecnica Superior de Arquitectura in Madrid. He is a founding partner of architectural firm Office Kersten Geers David Van Severen in Brussels. He is also an Associate Professor at Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, where he is head of the Laboratory for Architecture as Form. Enrique Walker is an architect and Associate Professor at Columbia University's Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, where he also directs the Master of Science in Advanced Architectural Design. Yoshiharu Tsukamoto, born 1965, is an architect and founding partner of Tokyo-based Atelier Bow-Wow. He has also been an Associate Professor at the Tokyo Institute of Technology since 2000. Andrea Zanderigo, born 1974, is an architect and a founding partner with baukuh, an office for architecture and research based in Milano. He has been teaching at various universities and is also a cofounder and editor of San Rocco architectural magazine. Jelena Pancevac, born 1984, graduated from the Faculty of Architecture at University of Belgrade and has also done postgraduate studies at Zurich University of the Arts ZHdK and Haute Ecole d'art et de design de Geneve. She has been working as a researcher and teaching assistant at EPFL's Laboratory for Architecture as Form since 2013.

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