Robert Venturi
“The difficult whole is more satisfying than the easy unity.”
“The iconography of the everyday is a legitimate source for architecture.”
“I prefer “both-and” to “either-or.””
“Complexity and contradiction are the essence of urban experience.”
“Architecture is the decoration of construction.”
“Ambiguity is the delight and the dilemma of architecture.”
“I like elements which are hybrid rather than “pure,” compromising rather than “clean.””
“Main Street is almost all right.”
“I am for richness of meaning rather than clarity of meaning; for the implicit over the explicit.”
“Less is a bore.”