Venturi, 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.
Instead, I speak of a complex and contradictory architecture based on the richness and
ambiguity of modern experienceÉ
¥Robert
Venturi