Martin Filler
Robert Venturi: Visionary of Main Street
Rather than being ironic and condescending, Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown’s commercial and quotidian borrowings represented their belief that “Main Street is almost all right,” and that there is much to be learned from popular taste. Their support of a more egalitarian, inclusive approach to high-style architecture might have been their most important accomplishment.
October 3, 2018