The goal of an architect is to design for the times. In the mid-to-late 20th century, postmodernists such as Venturi found that the purism and oversimplification of modernism were lacking. Venturi recognized that the world is not simple in nature, but full of complexity and contradictions. Postmodernists aim for a richness of meaning implicit through complexity and contradiction rather than an overly simplistic and blatant clarity of meaning. A building is essentially composed of a variety of paradoxes, such as exterior and interior, primary and secondary spaces, etc. In Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture, Robert Venturi states that “gross simplification means bland architecture” and elaborates on the need for complexity and contradiction architecturally appropriate to modernity (Venturi, 25). “A valid order adapts to the circumstantial contradictions of a complex reality.” (Venturi, 46). According to Kahn, "it is the role of design to adapt to circumstances", but modern architecture "has operated for too long under the restrictions of an inflexible rectan »....