(1925-) US architect. He pioneered Postmodernism through his books Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture 1967 (Pulitzer Prize 1991) and Learning from Las Vegas 1972. In 1986 he was commissioned to design the Sainsbury Wing extension to the National Gallery, London, opened 1991.
He is famous for his slogan “Less is a bore”, countering German architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s “Less is more”.

A tube with a constriction; used to control fluid flow (as in the air inlet of a carburetor).
A short tube with a constricted throat for determining fluid pressures and velocities by measuring differential pressures generated at the throat as a fluid traverses the tube.
A short tube with a tapering construction in the middle that causes an increase in the velocity of flow of a fluid and a corresponding decrease in fluid pressure and that is used especially in measuring fluid flow or for creating a suction (as for driving aircraft instruments or drawing fuel into the flow stream of a carburetor)