As an architect, I try to be guided not by habit but by a conscious sense of the past-by precedent, thoughtfully considered...As an artist, I frankly write about what I like in architecture: complexity and contradiction. From what we find we like-what we are easily attracted to-we can learn much of what we really are.
As an architect, I try to be guided not by habit but by a conscious sense of the past-by precedent, thoughtfully considered...As an artist, I frankly… - Robert Venturi
As an architect, I try to be guided not by habit but by a conscious sense of the past-by precedent, thoughtfully considered...As an artist, I frankly…
- Robert Venturi
When circumstances defy order, order should bend or break: anomalies and uncertainties give validity to architecture. - Robert Venturi
When circumstances defy order, order should bend or break: anomalies and uncertainties give validity to architecture.
It was very unusual to employ prettiness as part of a building. - Robert Venturi
It was very unusual to employ prettiness as part of a building.
Modernism is about space. Postmodernism is about communication. You should do what turns you on. - Robert Venturi
Modernism is about space. Postmodernism is about communication. You should do what turns you on.
Disharmony that comes from circumstances that are valid has tension, poignancy, quality, and beauty. - Robert Venturi
Disharmony that comes from circumstances that are valid has tension, poignancy, quality, and beauty.
Main Street is almost alright. - Robert Venturi
Main Street is almost alright.
The Italian landscape has always harmonized the vulgar and the Vitruvian: the contorni around the duomo, the portiere'S laundry across the padrone's … - Robert Venturi
The Italian landscape has always harmonized the vulgar and the Vitruvian: the contorni around the duomo, the portiere'S laundry across the padrone's …
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