decorated shed venturi
The work of venturi, scott brown, and john rauch adopted the latter strategy, producing formally simple "decorated sheds" with rich, complex, and often shocking ornamental flourishes. venturi and his wife co-wrote several more books at the end of the century, but these two have so far proved to be the most influential.. The ironic thing about the idea for the "duck and the decorated shed," is the fact that the group of robert venturi, denise scott brown, and steven izenour admit to an ulterior motive of its invention.they start by telling us a simple known fact that architects as a rule, tend to philosophize and write in order to justify their own work.. Some would say that postmodernist architecture has two fathers, venturi and charles moore, who is perhaps a bit more willing to acknowledge the child than venturi. still, it is venturi’s book, complexity and contradiction in architecture , published by the museum of modern art in 1966, that provided the manifesto for the movement—if, indeed. 
decorated shed venturi The storied french gothic cathedral chartres, they wrote, “is a duck (although it is a decorated shed as well).” in the spirit of ducks, its floor plan takes the form of a latin cross. its ornate fa
