Frasi di Robert Venturi

Robert Charles Venturi Jr. è stato un architetto statunitense, tra i principali esponenti della corrente postmoderna. Wikipedia  

✵ 25. Giugno 1925 – 18. Settembre 2018
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Robert Venturi: Frasi in inglese

“The essential purpose of the interiors of buildings is to enclose rather than direct space, and to separate the inside from the outside”

Robert Venturi libro Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture

9. The Inside and the Outside
Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture (1966)

“Main Street is almost alright.”

Robert Venturi libro Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture

Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture (1966)

“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.”

Robert Venturi libro Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture

2. Complexity and Contradiction vs. Simplification or Picturesqueness
Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture (1966)

“The calculated ambiguity of expression is based on the confusion of experience as reflected in the architectural program.”

Robert Venturi libro Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture

3. Ambiguity
Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture (1966)

“Nor does complexity deny the valid simplification which is part of the process of analysis, and even a method of achieving complex architecture itself.”

Robert Venturi libro Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture

2. Complexity and Contradiction vs. Simplification or Picturesqueness
Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture (1966)

“Rationalizations for simplification are still current, however, though subtler than the early arguments.”

Robert Venturi libro Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture

2. Complexity and Contradiction vs. Simplification or Picturesqueness
Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture (1966)

“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.”

Robert Venturi libro Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture

1. Nonstraightfoward Architecture: A Gentle Manifesto
Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture (1966)

“I am for richness of meaning rather than clarity of meaning; for the implicit function as well as the explicit function.”

Robert Venturi libro Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture

1. Nonstraightfoward Architecture: A Gentle Manifesto
Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture (1966)

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