Quotes from Robert Venturi

Less is a bore.

Less is a bore.

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

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.

Seeing what is not effective is effective for understanding what is effective.

Viva the mitten with wriggle room over the glove where form follows function!

Viva ambiguity acknowledged unambiguously!

Our thinking has many sources.

If you're lucky you live long enough to see the bad results of your good ideas.

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

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

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