I am for richness of meaning rather than clarity of meaning. [...]

I prefer "both-and" to "either-or," black and white, and sometimes gray, to black or white.

A valid architecture evokes many levels of meaning and combinations of focus: its space and its elements become readable and workable in several ways at once. But an architecture of complexity and contradiction has a special obligation toward the whole: its truth must be in its totality or its implications of totality.

It must embody the difficult unity of inclusion rather than the easy unity of exclusion.

Venturi, Robert: Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture (1966)

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