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> [When circumstances defy order, order should bend or break: anomalies and uncertainties give validity to architecture.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-venturi/when-circumstances-defy-order-order-should-bend-or-break-anomalies/)

[Robert Venturi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-venturi/)

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## More by Robert Venturi

> [When circumstances defy order, order should bend or break: anomalies and uncertainties give validity to architecture.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-venturi/when-circumstances-defy-order-order-should-bend-or-break-anomalies/)

[Robert Venturi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-venturi/)

> [It was very unusual to employ prettiness as part of a building.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-venturi/it-was-very-unusual-to-employ-prettiness-as-part-of-a-building/)

[Robert Venturi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-venturi/)

> [Disharmony that comes from circumstances that are valid has tension, poignancy, quality, and beauty.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-venturi/disharmony-that-comes-from-circumstances-that-are-valid-has-tension/)

[Robert Venturi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-venturi/)

> [Modernism is about space. Postmodernism is about communication. You should do what turns you on.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-venturi/modernism-is-about-space-postmodernism-is-about-communication-you/)

[Robert Venturi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-venturi/as-an-architect-i-try-to-be-guided-not-by-habit-but-by-a-conscious/)

[Robert Venturi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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 portone, Supercortemaggiore…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-venturi/the-italian-landscape-has-always-harmonized-the-vulgar-and-the/)

[Robert Venturi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-venturi/)

> [Less is a bore.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-venturi/less-is-a-bore/)

[Robert Venturi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-venturi/)

> [Main Street is almost alright.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/robert-venturi/main-street-is-almost-alright/)

[Robert Venturi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/robert-venturi/)

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