Robert Venturi famous quotes

It was very unusual to employ prettiness as part of a building.
-- Robert Venturi

#Unusual #Building #Prettiness

The Italian landscape has always harmonized the vulgar and the Vitruvian: the contorni around the duomo, the portiere'S laundry across the padrone's portone, Supercortemaggiore against the Romanesque apse. Naked children have never played in our fountains, and I. M. Pei will never be happy on Route 66.
-- Robert Venturi

#Children #Italian #Naked

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

#Order #Giving #Anomalies

Modernism is about space. Postmodernism is about communication. You should do what turns you on.
-- Robert Venturi

#Communication #Space #Should

Main Street is almost alright.
-- Robert Venturi

#Main Street #Streets #Alright

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.
-- Robert Venturi

#Writing #Artist #Past

Disharmony that comes from circumstances that are valid has tension, poignancy, quality, and beauty.
-- Robert Venturi

#Quality #Circumstances #Tension

Chicks dig me because I rarely wear underwear, and when I do, it's usually something unusual.

There are enough fossils showing distinctive features to rule out the possibility these are unusual or aberrant modern humans

I have found that I have no unusual endowments of intellect, but this day I resolve that I will be an uncommon Christian.

There is nothing biologically unusual about a homosexual act of pseudocopulation. Many species indulge in this, under a variety of circumstances.

Actually, I have a lot of hobbies, but I've kept up with model-building the longest. In particular, I love military models.

I did climb about 80 buildings around the world and I climbed even the five tallest.

I have designed the most buildings of any living American architect.

I exist as an annexe of the BBC. I'm down the road a bit from the main building, in a little hut.

To me, the coaching profession is one of the noblest and most far-reaching in building manhood.

It was very unusual to employ prettiness as part of a building.