Robert Venturi
Robert Venturi
Robert Charles Venturi, Jr.is an American architect, founding principal of the firm Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates, and one of the major architectural figures in the twentieth century. Together with his wife and partner, Denise Scott Brown, he helped to shape the way that architects, planners and students experience and think about architecture and the American built environment. Their buildings, planning, theoretical writings, and teaching have also contributed to the expansion of discourse about architecture...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionArchitect
Date of Birth25 June 1925
CityPhiladelphia, PA
CountryUnited States of America
Robert Venturi quotes about
It was very unusual to employ prettiness as part of a building.
Main Street is almost alright.
Disharmony that comes from circumstances that are valid has tension, poignancy, quality, and beauty.
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.
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, I frankly write about what I like in architecture: complexity and contradiction. From what we find we like-what we are easily attracted to-we can learn much of what we really are.
Modernism is about space. Postmodernism is about communication. You should do what turns you on.