Robert Venturi (1925–2018)
Autor von Bauwelt Fundamente, Bd.53, Lernen von Las Vegas (Bauwelt Fundamente)
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Robert Charles Venturi Jr. was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on June 25, 1925. He received undergraduate and graduate degrees from Princeton University. He worked for Eero Saarinen and Louis Kahn, before winning a fellowship at the American Academy in Rome. Venturi spent two years in Europe mehr anzeigen studying buildings. After returning to the United States, he joined the faculty at the University of Pennsylvania. He went into private practice in 1960, first in partnership with William H. Short and then, starting in 1964, with John Rauch. His wife Denise Scott Brown joined the Venturi Rauch firm in 1969. In 1989, Rauch resigned, the firm was renamed Venturi, Scott Brown & Associates. It is now known as VSBA Architects & Planners. His buildings and books helped inspire the movement known as postmodernism. His buildings included the Guild House in Philadelphia, an addition to the National Gallery in London, and the Seattle Art Museum. His books included Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture and Learning from Las Vegas written with Denise Scott Brown and Steven Izenour. He won the Pritzker Prize in 1991. He died from complications of Alzheimer's disease on September 18, 2018 at the age of 93. (Bowker Author Biography) weniger anzeigen
Werke von Robert Venturi
Iconography and Electronics upon a Generic Architecture: A View from the Drafting Room (1996) 41 Exemplare
Complexity and Contradiction at Fifty: Robert Venturi's "Gentle Manifesto": A Symposium (2019) 13 Exemplare
Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown, and Steven Izenour at Acadia Summer Arts Program (2010) 4 Exemplare
The Highway 2 Exemplare
Architecture as signs and systems : for a mannerist time — Autor — 1 Exemplar
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Architectural Theory: From The Renaissance to the Present (Klotz) (2003) — Mitwirkender — 283 Exemplare
The Harvard Design School Guide to Shopping / Project on the City 2 (2001) — Mitwirkender — 162 Exemplare
Learning from La Jolla : Robert Venturi remakes a museum in the precinct of Irving Gill (1997) — Mitwirkender — 13 Exemplare
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- Gebräuchlichste Namensform
- Venturi, Robert
- Rechtmäßiger Name
- Venturi, Robert Charles Jr.
- Geburtstag
- 1925-06-25
- Todestag
- 2018-09-18
- Geschlecht
- male
- Nationalität
- USA
- Geburtsort
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
- Sterbeort
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
- Wohnorte
- Merion, Pennsylvania, USA
Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, USA - Ausbildung
- Princeton University (B.A.|1946|M.F.A.|1950)
Episcopal Academy - Berufe
- architect
professor - Beziehungen
- Brown, Denise Scott (wife)
- Organisationen
- University of Pennsylvania
Yale School of Architecture - Preise und Auszeichnungen
- National Medal of Arts (1992)
Vincent Scully Prize (2002)
D'Amato Prize (1947)
AIA Gold Medal (2016)
Pritzker Architecture Prize (1991)
Rome Prize Fellowship (1954) (Zeige alle 12)
American Academy of Arts and Letters (Art ∙ 1990)
AIA Medal (1978)
Fellow, American Institute of Architects (1978)
Commendatore Ordine al Merito della Repubblica Italiana (1986)
Commandeur de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (2000)
Design Mind Award (2007)
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