Robert Venturi softened his Vanna Venturi House to accommodate his mother's old-fashioned furniture by simply adding moulding.

ECONOMIST: Architectural styles

Like the architect Robert Venturi, they're cultural plunderers, mix 'n' matchers, thrift store assemblers and meta-narrative dissemblers.

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Robert Venturi's "gentle manifesto, " published as "Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture" in 1966, called for a reconsideration of the lessons of history and the subtleties of spatial relationships and enriching ornament of the past.

WSJ: When the Outrageous Became Mainstream

Postmodernism was the flavor of the decade, and I remember talking to Robert Venturi, who was kind of the godfather of postmodernism, and he hated practically everything called postmodern architecture and was uneasy with all that he had wrought.

NEWYORKER: Search and Destroy

Most major practitioners now esteem the Bauhaus, in contrast with the postmodern architects of Venturi's era--an era that includes Michael Graves and Robert A. M.

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