Venturi, in Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture (1966), criticized the excessive dogmatism of post-war Modern Architecture by defending th...

Venturi, in Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture (1966), criticized the excessive dogmatism of post-war Modern Architecture by defending the "richness of meaning, rather than clarity of meaning". What does the author refer to with this proposition?


a. Venturi refers to the inability of orthodox functionalism to have multifunctional spaces.
b. Venturi refers to the use of Corbusian premises in contrast to the creation of a standardized and universal style.
c. Venturi refers to the use of symbolic historical elements in opposition to the objectivity of rationalism.
d. Venturi refers to the resumption of Historicist Architecture in its classical sense in opposition to functionalism.
e. Venturi refers to the resumption of the traditional sense of the city opposed to urban functionalism.