Roakes, Sally J.2015-06-232015-06-231985http://hdl.handle.net/10919/53085All material in nature, the mountains and the streams and the air and we, are made of Light which has been spent, and this crumpled mass called material casts a shadow, and the shadow belongs to Light. Louis I. Kahn¹ I like complexity and contradiction in architecture. I do not like the incoherence or arbitrariness of incompetent architecture nor the precious intricacies of picturesqueness or expressionism. Instead, I speak of a complex and contradictory architecture based on the richness and ambiguity of modern experience, including that experience which is inherent in art. Robert Venturi²iv, 14 leavesapplication/pdfen-USIn CopyrightLD5655.V855 1985.R622Sports facilities -- Washington (D.C.) -- Designs and plansWashington (D.C.) -- Buildings, structures, etc. -- Designs and plansRock Creek Park (Washington, D.C.) -- Buildings, structures, etc. -- Designs and plansThesis