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First published in 1966, Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture is one of the most important texts on architectural theory of the second half of the 20th century and one of the first to comprehensively and emphatically question the ideas and precepts of the Modern Movement. Based on the study and evidence of hundreds of works from the history of architecture, in this relentless argument Venturi demystified some of the assumptions of modern architecture by challenging certain notions of rationalism such as simplification, coherence, or the tabula rasa regarding tradition, and by introducing other, until then unusual, concepts such as complexity and contradiction.