Robert Venturi

Quotes

• “Main Street is almost alright.”
• “I like complexity and contradiction in architecture. I do not like the incoherence or arbitrariness of incompetent architecture nor the precious intricacies of picturesqueness or expressionism.”
• “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, mechanical equipment, and expression, even in single buildings in simple contexts, are diverse and conflicting in ways previously unimaginable.”
• “I am for messy vitality over obvious unity.”
• “I am for richness of meaning rather than clarity of meaning; for the implicit function as well as the explicit function.”
• “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 elementary at the expense of the diverse and the sophisticated.”

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Key facts

Born

Robert Charles Venturi Jr. , ( 1925-06-25 ) June 25, 1925, Philadelphia , Pennsylvania, U.S.

Died

September 18, 2018 (2018-09-18) (aged 93), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.

Alma mater

Princeton University

Occupation

Architect

Spouse

Denise Scott Brown ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1967 ) ​

Children

James Venturi

Awards

Pritzker Prize (1991) Vincent Scully Prize (2002) AIA Gold Medal (2016)

Practice

Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates Venturi and Rauch Venturi, Rauch and Scott Brown

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Image

Robert Venturi 2008 Rome (cropped).jpg

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