When circumstances defy order, order should bend or break: anomalies and uncertainties give validity to architecture. — Robert Venturi Anomalies Copy Share Image
It was very unusual to employ prettiness as part of a building. — Robert Venturi Building Copy Share Image
Disharmony that comes from circumstances that are valid has tension, poignancy, quality, and beauty. — Robert Venturi Beauty Copy Share Image
Modernism is about space. Postmodernism is about communication. You should do what turns you on. — Robert Venturi Communication 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… — Robert Venturi Architect 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… — Robert Venturi Children Copy Share Image
