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Architecture as Signs and Systems: For a Mannerist Time (The William E. Massey Sr. Lectures in American Studies) Architecture as Signs and Systems: For a Mannerist Time by Robert Venturi
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“You can have mythic allusions in houses with flat roofs, and you can also play on the roof.”
Denise Scott Brown, Architecture as Signs and Systems: For a Mannerist Time
“Seeing what is not effective is effective for understanding what is effective.”
Robert Venturi, Architecture as Signs and Systems: For a Mannerist Time
“Our thinking has many sources.”
Robert Venturi, Architecture as Signs and Systems: For a Mannerist Time
“Viva ambiguity acknowledged unambiguously!”
Robert Venturi, Architecture as Signs and Systems: For a Mannerist Time
“Viva the mitten with wriggle room over the glove where form follows function!”
Robert Venturi, Architecture as Signs and Systems: For a Mannerist Time