Robert Venturi
An American architect and theorist, he was a leading figure in the postmodern movement, known for his book 'Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture' and the phrase 'less is a bore'.
Quotes by Robert Venturi
The architect must be a philosopher.
We are for the rich and the ambiguous.
Architecture is a political act.
The architect's job is to make the ordinary meaningful.
We are for the difficult and the easy.
Architecture is a poetic act.
The architect must be a poet.
We are for the difficult and the simple.
Architecture is a moral act.
The architect's job is to make the ordinary extraordinary, but not heroic.
Architecture is the thoughtful making of space.
The highway strip is a new kind of urban form.
Learning from Las Vegas means learning from the existing landscape.
An architecture of complexity and contradiction has a special obligation.
Modern architects were bent on the simplification of form.
We look backward at history and tradition.
The decorated shed is the architecture of communication.
Architecture should be inclusive, not exclusive.
Postmodernism is not a style but an attitude.
I am not against modernism; I am for pluralism.