Robert Venturi

“Main Street is almost all right.”

“To make the normal special.”

“I like elements which are hybrid rather than 'pure,' compromising rather than 'clean,'...accommodating rather than excluding.”

“Architects can no longer afford to be intimidated by the puritanically moral language of orthodox Modern architecture.”

“The familiar is revolutionary.”

“I speak of a complex and contradictory architecture based on the richness and ambiguity of modern experience.”

“Unity, easy, simple, and grand, is generally bought at the expense of exclusion.”

“The questioning of the existing order is a condition of progress.”

“Less is a bore.”

“I am for messy vitality over obvious unity.”

“A building is a decorated shed.”

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

“Blatant simplification means bland architecture.”

“Architecture is a shelter with symbols on it.”