Architecture & Built Environment · Modern & Contemporary Architecture
A topic within Modern & Contemporary Architecture, itself one of 11 topics in that field and part of Architecture & Built Environment.
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Robert Venturi
Argues architecture should embrace ambiguity, contradiction and historical reference instead of the simplified purity of modernism, because a valid architecture evokes many levels of meaning at once.
Charles Jencks
Modern architecture died the day Pruitt-Igoe was demolished, and its postmodern successor must speak in multiple, even contradictory codes to reach more than one audience at once.