Robert Venturi

"Nor does complexity deny the valid simplification which is part of the process of analysis, and even a method of achieving complex architecture itself."

"But architecture is necessarily complex and contradictory in its very inclusion of the traditional Vitruvian elements of commodity, firmness, and delight. And today the wants of program, structure, me…"

"Orthodox Modern architects have tended to recognize complexity insufficiently or inconsistently. In their attempt to break with tradition and start all over again, they idealized the primitive and ele…"

"The calculated ambiguity of expression is based on the confusion of experience as reflected in the architectural program."

"Architecture as the wall between the inside and the outside becomes the spatial record of this resolution and its drama. And by recognizing the difference between the inside and the outside, architect…"

"Main Street is almost alright."

"The essential purpose of the interiors of buildings is to enclose rather than direct space, and to separate the inside from the outside"

"Perhaps it is the fate of all theorists to view the ripples from their works with mixed feelings. I have sometimes felt more comfortable with my critics than with those who have agreed with me. The la…"