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1 " Seeing what is not effective is effective for understanding what is effective. "
― Robert Venturi , Architecture as Signs and Systems: For a Mannerist Time
2 " Viva the mitten with wriggle room over the glove where form follows function! "
3 " Our thinking has many sources. "
4 " Less is a bore. "
― Robert Venturi
5 " When circumstances defy order, order should bend or break: anomalies and uncertainties give validity to architecture. "
6 " 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. "
― Robert Venturi , Learning from Las Vegas: The Forgotten Symbolism of Architectural Form
7 " Viva ambiguity acknowledged unambiguously! "
8 " If you're lucky you live long enough to see the bad results of your good ideas. "
― Robert Venturi , Iconography and Electronics Upon a Generic Architecture: A View from the Drafting Room
9 " You can have mythic allusions in houses with flat roofs, and you can also play on the roof. "
