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“Less is a bore.”
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“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.”
― Learning from Las Vegas: The Forgotten Symbolism of Architectural Form
― Learning from Las Vegas: The Forgotten Symbolism of Architectural Form
“When circumstances defy order, order should bend or break: anomalies and uncertainties give validity to architecture.”
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“Seeing what is not effective is effective for understanding what is effective.”
― Architecture as Signs and Systems: For a Mannerist Time
― Architecture as Signs and Systems: For a Mannerist Time
“A building with no ‘imperfect’ part can have no perfect part, because contrast supports meaning.”
― Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture
― Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture
“If you're lucky you live long enough to see the bad results of your good ideas.”
― Iconography and Electronics upon a Generic Architecture: A View from the Drafting Room
― Iconography and Electronics upon a Generic Architecture: A View from the Drafting Room
“Viva the mitten with wriggle room over the glove where form follows function!”
― Architecture as Signs and Systems: For a Mannerist Time
― Architecture as Signs and Systems: For a Mannerist Time
“Our thinking has many sources.”
― Architecture as Signs and Systems: For a Mannerist Time
― Architecture as Signs and Systems: For a Mannerist Time
“Viva ambiguity acknowledged unambiguously!”
― Architecture as Signs and Systems: For a Mannerist Time
― Architecture as Signs and Systems: For a Mannerist Time
