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Photo by Dino Palomares

Robert Browning wrote, “Less is more,” but eminent architect Robert Venturi ’47 *50 disagrees. In designing the interior of the Frist Campus Center, Venturi and his partner (and wife) Denise Scott Brown believe that “creative clutter”—from the stylized “graffitti” of these quotations to the Café Vivian pictures to displays of Princeton iconography—plays an important role in creating a comfortable, communal facility, as well as demonstrating the diversity of the university experience. Venturi’s architecture is scattered across the globe and the Princeton campus, having also designed Wu Hall, Lewis Thomas Laboratory, Schultz Lab, Fisher-Bendheim Hall and the Forbes College renovation. He is the author of the acclaimed Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture and the recipient of numerous awards, including the 1985 Princeton University James Madison Medal.

• To learn more about recipients of the James Madison Medal, see quotation #3, 30, and 31, and Café Vivian picture #70, 122, and 125.
  
  
• To learn more about notable Princeton undergraduate alumni, see icon #4, 5, and 10, quotation #3, 4, 7, 8, 10, 14, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 27, 29, 33, 36, 37, and 41, and Café Vivian picture #1, 5, 7, 15, 17, 39, 41, 55, 57, 59, 74, 76, 84, 88, 99, 101, 102, 107, 110, and 123.
  
  
• To learn more about notable Princeton graduate alumni, see quotation #3, 30, 31, and 34 and Café Vivian picture #59, 70, and 131.
  
  
• To learn more about the Frist Campus Center, see icon #5 and 8, quotation #7, and 39, and Café Vivian picture #114 and 124.
  
  
• To learn more about campus grounds and buildings, see icon #1, 5, and 8, quotation #7, 9, 28, and 39, and Café Vivian picture #4, 6, 7, 8, 11, 16, 20, 25, 30, 33, 37, 40, 46, 48, 54, 58, 61, 62, 67, 68, 71, 78, 85, 87, 95, 100, 101, 102, 104, 105, 108, 109, 111, 118, 124, 127, and 133.

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