ABSTRACT
Paradoxically, another field of psychological investigation suggests that the contemporary way of life is subjecting the human mind to a kind of sensory bombardment. Environmental determinism operates at the other extreme of density of information. Some architects have responded readily, some would say too readily, to the psychological prescriptions laid down by Parr and others. Robert Venturi (1965) advocates architecture which is bulging with complexity: open-ended, ambiguous and impure in terms of the accepted style. Another body of psychological evidence which has come to the fore comparatively recently would regard the Venturi attitude as potentially harmful.
