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… — Robert Venturi Copy Share Image
When circumstances defy order, order should bend or break: anomalies and uncertainties give validity to architecture. — Robert Venturi Copy Share Image
Disharmony that comes from circumstances that are valid has tension, poignancy, quality, and beauty. — Robert Venturi Copy Share Image
Modernism is about space. Postmodernism is about communication. You should do what turns you on. — Robert Venturi Copy Share Image
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,… — Robert Venturi Copy Share Image
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… — Robert Venturi Copy Share Image
