Architects: could you call a decorated shed a premium mediocre duck?
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Venturi saw the duck as being undesirable in its own right, so the decorated shed was more of an alternative. But from a postmodern point of view (which he wouldn’t really admit to having) he in certain ways tried to embrace the realities of mediocrity on their own terms.
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Doing so would require flattening the complexity of premium mediocre so much as to render it no more than a sort of super sizing. I don’t think the analogy preserves the psycho-social relations...
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