In 1966, Robert Venturi first advocated this architectural style with the publication of Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture. Buildings created in this style include the Portland Building, the Sony Building, and much of the Las Vegas Strip. Its rise parallels that of similar ideas in the humanities, based on an acceptance of complexity and contradiction and rejection of fundamental organizing principles. This sty
In 1966, Robert Venturi first advocated this architectural style with the publication of Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture. Buildings created in this style include the Portland Building, the Sony Building, and much of the Las Vegas Strip. Its rise parallels that of similar ideas in the humanities, based on an acceptance of complexity and contradiction and rejection of fundamental organizing principles. This style gives personality and richness to buildings by adding a variety of features like curved exterior or slanted pillars. For ten points, name this type of architecture, a reaction to the stark austerity of modernism.
In 1966, Robert Venturi first advocated this architectural style with the publication of Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture.
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