- "Symbolic conception rather than one that is purely spatially abstract... the space is pulled. The space is distended from that hearth as the mass of the chimney rises up to split the house"
Christopher Mead, ed. and introduction. excerpt from Vincent Scully, 'Robert Venturi's Gentle Architecture.' The Architecture of Robert Venturi. p11-12 - Rigid symmetry is "monumental" at the street but looser towards the rear.
Stanislaus von Moos. Venturi, Rauch & Scott Brown: Buildings and Projects p.244 - 246 - "The monumental street facade alludes to Michelangelo's Porta Pia in Rome and the backwall of the Nymphaeum at Palladio and Alessandro Vittoria's Villa Barbaro at Maser... the broken pediment recalls the 'duality' of Luigi Moretti's apartment house on the Via Parioli in Roma" - Von Moos
Michelangelos Porta Pia
Nymphaeum at Palladio (Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:VillaBarbaro_2007_07_08_09.jpg)
Villa Barbaro (Souce: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Villa_Barbaro_panoramica_fronte_Marcok.jpg)
Luigi Moretti's apartment house - (Source: http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3118/2663107947_2ac97f24d9.jpg?v=0)
- Some elements corresponding to domestic program, others whimsical not inappropriate to an individual house.
- Front is a symbol
- Palladian rigidity
- Pediment a representation of a classical composition
- Neoplatonic figure - Vitruvian vision
Vitruvian man (Source: http://quistlink.com/Wk%204/frames/studyofproportions_fromVitruviusDeArchitectura_leonardo.jpg)
- Reflection of plan of Kahn's Goldenberg House project of 1959 in the Beach House
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