He has also been credited with saving modern architecture. The Museum of Modern Art Papers on Architecture. Robert Venturi, architect in the Great Buildings Online. Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture. Beyond Utopia: Changing Attitudes in American.
US architect and writer; pioneer of postmodernist architecture; full name Robert Charles Venturi. Among his buildings are the Humanities. Manufactured by Knoll International, Inc. Venturi studied architecture at Princeton University.
Follow authors to get new release updates, plus improved recommendations and more. Venturi was born in Philadelphia and educated at Princeton University. Learning from Levittown” at the Yale School of Architecture. In his writings, Venturi inveighed against the banality of modern architecture in the postwar period. Interviewer: Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel Part of the Diamonstein-Spielvogel Video Archive in the Duke. Functional objects with original forms and exclusive designs.
The personal and professional interaction between these two historically significant architects. Medium: Molded plywood, printed plastic laminate. Courtesy of Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection. Is not Main Street almost all right?
Birthplace, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Denise Scott Brown (sarcastically): Yes, I do the typing, and he does everything else.