When Robert Venturi’s Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture ... His gentle manifesto overturned Modern architecture’s emphasis on simplicity and its Miesian belief that “less is more.” For me, ...

Behind the Scenes: The Simplicity & Complexity of Architecture also marks 3XN’s 30th anniversary, which the firm is celebrating throughout 2016. This event was submitted by an ArchDaily user.

Why all the fuss over simplicity? Because innovation requires us to wander in complexity and be lost in its sinuous twists and stopped by its unexpected dead ends before we may find our way ...

Midcentury modern architecture, it seems, will never go out of style. After suffering a blip of critical revulsion in the 1980s and early ’90s, this movement based in artful simplicity ...

Simplicity has a unique, almost rebellious kind of power. It is what sets apart true brilliance from noise, yet it’s often undervalued. The reason is simple: complexity sells. It signals effort ...