“By limiting itself to strident articulations of the pure architectural elements of space, structure and program, modern architecture's expression has become a dry expressionism, empty and boring - and in that end irresponsible. Ironically, the modern architecture of today, while rejecting explicit symbolism and frivolous applique ornament, has distorted the whole building into one big ornament. In substituting 'articulation' for decoration, it has become a duck.”

Robert Ventrui