Vanna Venturi House
1961-1964 Robert Venturi, Pritzker Prize Laureate Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USAFrank Lloyd Wright said architects should design from the inside out. But we now accept within our more complex view of things, as we acknowledge context as an important determinant of design, that we design from the inside out and the outside in, and — as I said a long time ago — this act can create valid tensions where the wall, the line of change between inside and out, is acknowledged to become a spatial record — in the end, an essential architectural event.
And as a building is designed from the inside out and the outside in, so, one can say, is an architect designed in that way — that is, his own development as an artist can work through his development inside — through his intuition, ordered by means of analysis and discipline, but also through his development outside, via the influence of persons and places. (Robert Venturi, in Discurso de Aceitação do Prémio Pritzker de Arquitectura, 1991)
