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Robert Venturi

Born

in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, The United States

June 25, 1925

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Art, Architecture and Urbanism

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Robert Charles Venturi, Jr. is an American architect, founding principal of the firm Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates, and one of the major architectural figures in the twentieth century. Together with his wife and partner, Denise Scott Brown, he helped to 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 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 Denise Scott Brown. As of 2013 a group of women architects is attempting to get her nam ...more

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	Learning from Las Vegas: The Forgotten Symbolism of Architectural Form by Robert Venturi, Steven Izenour, Denise Scott Brown really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2,216 ratings — published 1972 — 24 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture by Robert Venturi, Arthur Drexler (Foreword), Vincent Scully (Introduction) 4.09 avg rating — 1,729 ratings — published 1966 — 35 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Architecture as Signs and Systems: For a Mannerist Time by Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown 4.28 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 2004 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Learning from Las Vegas - Revised Edition: The Forgotten Symbolism of Architectural Form by Robert Venturi, The MIT Press 3.60 avg rating — 15 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Iconography and Electronics upon a Generic Architecture: A View from the Drafting Room 3.90 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 1996 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mother's House: The Evolution of Vanna Venturi's House in Chestnut Hill by Robert Venturi, Frederic Schwartz really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1992 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Aprendiendo de todas las cosas 4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2002	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Arkitekturteorier (Skriftserien Kairos, #5) by Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown, Colin Rowe 4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1999 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	De l'ambiguïté en Architecture 3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1957 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	L'enseignement de Las Vegas, ou, Le symbolisme oublié de la forme architecturale by Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown, Steven Izenour 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Less is a bore.”
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“When circumstances defy order, order should bend or break: anomalies and uncertainties give validity to architecture.”
― Robert Venturi

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“The Italian landscape has always harmonized the vulgar and the Vitruvian: the contorni around the duomo, the portiere'S laundry across the padrone's portone, Supercortemaggiore against the Romanesque apse. Naked children have never played in our fountains, and I. M. Pei will never be happy on Route 66.”
― Robert Venturi, Learning from Las Vegas: The Forgotten Symbolism of Architectural Form

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