Robert Venturi quotes
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“It was very unusual to employ prettiness as part of a building.”
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“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.”
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“When circumstances defy order, order should bend or break: anomalies and uncertainties give validity to architecture.”
-- Robert VenturiSource : Robert Venturi, Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) (1977). “Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture”, p.41, The Museum of Modern Art
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“Modernism is about space. Postmodernism is about communication. You should do what turns you on.”
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“Main Street is almost alright.”
-- Robert VenturiSource : "Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture". Book by Robert Venturi, 1966.
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“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.”
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“Disharmony that comes from circumstances that are valid has tension, poignancy, quality, and beauty.”
-- Robert Venturi
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“Chicks dig me because I rarely wear underwear, and when I do, it's usually something unusual.”
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Source : Desmond Morris (1986). “The illustrated naked ape: a zoologist's study of the human animal”, Crown Pub
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“I did climb about 80 buildings around the world and I climbed even the five tallest.”
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“I have designed the most buildings of any living American architect.”
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“I exist as an annexe of the BBC. I'm down the road a bit from the main building, in a little hut.”
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“To me, the coaching profession is one of the noblest and most far-reaching in building manhood.”
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“It was very unusual to employ prettiness as part of a building.”
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