When circumstances defy order, order should bend or break: anomalies and uncertainties give validity to architecture.
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
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.
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.
Main Street is almost alright. - Robert Venturi
Main Street is almost alright.
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.
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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