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

— Robert Venturi

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About Robert Venturi

Architect • American

Robert Venturi was a highly influential American architect and a founding principal of the firm Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates. He is widely regarded as one of the major architectural figures of the twentieth...

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