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I learned to love Robert Venturi, but it wasn't an easy process. The architect, who died on Wednesday at the age of 93, was among the most influential figures of 20th century architecture, and one ...
Architect Robert Venturi, shown in his Philadelphia office in 1991 with a model of a new hall for the Philadelphia Orchestra, argued for an architecture of "messy vitality." ...
In 2015, Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown were jointly awarded with the American Institute of Architects Gold Medal. The firm they shared, upon Venturi’s retirement in 2012, became VSBA and still ...
Robert Venturi, the Philadelphia-based architect whose buildings and writings championed “messy vitality” above the rational order of Modernism, died last week at age 93.
The news last week that Robert Venturi is retiring from his firm, Venturi Scott Brown and Associates (which will be renamed VSBA), is bittersweet. I wrote about Venturi and his wife and partner ...
Robert Venturi did not like Boston City Hall. “It’s all a big symbol, though it won’t admit it,” the architect told writer Paul Goldberger in 1971 of the hated Brutalist landmark that ...
Robert Venturi, the Philadelphia architect and writer who died earlier this month at 93, had a gift for maxims and other wryly efficient turns of phrase, many of which appeared in his 1966 book ...
Peter Eisenman:. Robert Venturi’s Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture, the first book of architectural theory by an American architect, opened the way for a generation of young ...
Reporting from Philadelphia — Architect Robert Venturi, who rejected austere modern design and instead ushered in postmodern complexity with the dictum “less is a bore,” has died. He was 93.
Robert Venturi was an iconoclastic architect often considered the father of postmodernism who rejected sterile, glass-cube structures in favour of an inclusive, ...
As Robert Venturi’s health declined further, in the 2010s, Scott Brown had a chance to speak more freely about their work — and took it.