Robert Venturi
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| - | {{Template}}'''Robert Charles Venturi''' ([[June 25]], [[1925]] -) is an award winning American [[architect]]. Based in [[Philadelphia]], he worked under [[Eero Saarinen]] and [[Louis Kahn]] before forming his own firm with John Rauch. As a faculty member at the [[University of Pennsylvania]], Venturi met his future wife, the architect and planner [[Denise Scott Brown]], who joined the firm in 1967. After Rauch's resignation in [[1989]], the firm took its current form and was named Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates, Inc.. Robert Venturi won the [[Pritzker Prize]] in [[1991]]. Robert Venturi coined the maxim "Less is a bore" as antidote to [[Ludwig Mies van der Rohe|Mies van der Rohe's]] famous [[Modernism|modernist]] dictum "Less is more". | + | {| class="toccolours" style="float: left; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 2em; font-size: 85%; background:#c6dbf7; color:black; width:30em; max-width: 40%;" cellspacing="5" |
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| + | "''[[Learning from Las Vegas]]'' published studies of the [[Las Vegas Strip]] undertaken by a 1970 research and design studio Venturi taught with Scott Brown at [[Yale]]'s School of Architecture and Planning. ''Learning from Las Vegas'' was a further [[rebuke]] to [[orthodox]] [[modernism]] and [[elite]] architectural tastes. The book coined the terms "Duck" and "Decorated Shed" as applied to opposing architectural building styles." --Sholem Stein | ||
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| - | Venturi was a controversial critic of the purely [[Functionalism|functional]] and spare designs of modern orthodox architecture and was considered a [[counterrevolutionary]]. He published his "gentle" manifesto, ''[[Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture]]'', in 1966, and it was described in the introduction by Vincent Scully to be "probably the most important writing on the making of architecture since Le Corbusier's '[[Towards a new architecture|Vers Une Architecture]]', of 1923." Venturi received a grant from the '''[[graham foundation |Graham Foundation]]''' in 1965 to aid in the completion of the book. | + | '''Robert Charles Venturi Jr.''' (June 25, 1925 – September 18, 2018) was an [[American architect]], one of the major architectural figures of the twentieth century. He is best known for his book ''[[Learning from Las Vegas]]'' (1972). |
| - | He graduated ''[[summa cum laude]]'' from [[Princeton University]] in [[1947]] and received his [[Master of Fine Arts|M.F.A.]] there in [[1950]]. | + | Together with his wife and partner, [[Denise Scott Brown]], he helped shape the way that architects, planners and students experience and think about architecture and the American-built environment. Their buildings, planning, theoretical writings, and teaching have also contributed to the expansion of discourse about architecture. |
| - | Important works by his firm include: | + | Venturi was awarded the [[Pritzker Prize]] in Architecture in 1991; the prize was awarded to him alone, despite a request to include his equal partner, Brown. Subsequently, a group of women architects attempted to get her name added retroactively to the prize, but the Pritzker Prize jury declined to do so. Venturi is also known for having coined the maxim "Less is a bore", a [[postmodern architecture|postmodern]] antidote to [[Ludwig Mies van der Rohe|Mies van der Rohe's]] famous [[Modernism|modernist]] dictum "Less is more". Venturi lived in [[Philadelphia]] with Denise Scott Brown. He was the father of James Venturi, founder and principal of ReThink Studio. |
| - | * Sainsbury Wing, [[National Gallery, London]] | + | |
| - | * Provincial Capitol Building, [[Toulouse]], [[France]] | + | |
| - | * Guild House, [[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]] | + | |
| - | * Vanna Venturi House, [[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]] | + | |
| - | * [[Seattle Art Museum]], [[Seattle, Washington]] | + | |
| - | The Vanna Venturi House in Philadelphia's Chestnut Hill, designed for Venturi's mother, was recognized as a "Masterwork of Modern American Architecture" by the [[United States Postal Service]] in May 2005. | + | |
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| - | * [[Postmodern architecture]] | ||
| - | * [[Semiotics]] | ||
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Robert Charles Venturi Jr. (June 25, 1925 – September 18, 2018) was an American architect, one of the major architectural figures of the twentieth century. He is best known for his book Learning from Las Vegas (1972).
Together with his wife and partner, Denise Scott Brown, he helped shape the way that architects, planners and students experience and think about architecture and the American-built environment. Their buildings, planning, theoretical writings, and teaching have also contributed to the expansion of discourse about architecture.
Venturi was awarded the Pritzker Prize in Architecture in 1991; the prize was awarded to him alone, despite a request to include his equal partner, Brown. Subsequently, a group of women architects attempted to get her name added retroactively to the prize, but the Pritzker Prize jury declined to do so. Venturi is also known for having coined the maxim "Less is a bore", a postmodern antidote to Mies van der Rohe's famous modernist dictum "Less is more". Venturi lived in Philadelphia with Denise Scott Brown. He was the father of James Venturi, founder and principal of ReThink Studio.
