Robert Venturi

“To make the normal special.”

“Less is a bore.”

“I am for messy vitality over obvious unity.”

“Main Street is almost all right.”

“I like elements which are hybrid rather than 'pure,' compromising rather than 'clean,'...accommodating rather than excluding.”

“Architects can no longer afford to be intimidated by the puritanically moral language of orthodox Modern architecture.”

“A building is a decorated shed.”

“The familiar is revolutionary.”

“An architecture of complexity and contradiction has a special obligation toward the whole.”

“I speak of a complex and contradictory architecture based on the richness and ambiguity of modern experience.”

“Blatant simplification means bland architecture.”

“Architecture is a shelter with symbols on it.”

“Unity, easy, simple, and grand, is generally bought at the expense of exclusion.”

“The questioning of the existing order is a condition of progress.”