Architect Denise Scott Brown saw her husband
Robert Venturi handed the prestigious 1991 Pritzker Architecture Prize, largely based on work they had done together.
He critiques the techno-utopianism of Buckminster Fuller and questions the architecture of capitalism promoted by
Robert Venturi and Scott Brown.
Architect
Robert Venturi, who rejected austere modern design and instead ushered in postmodern complexity with the dictum "Less is a bore," died at home in Philadelphia on Tuesday after a brief illness.
As the postmodern architects
Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown showed in their witty pastiche, the Chippendale chair is instantly recognisable, even pared back to its barest essentials: a pierced back splat and curved crest rail with elongated 'ears' either side (Fig.
The reader is taken on a detailed journey through fundamental steps in Las Vegas's history, such as atomic tests, the opening of the Caesars Palace, and the publication of the groundbreaking book Learning from Las Vegas, by
Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown.
Originating as a rebellious movement in philosophy and literature, Postmodernism proclaimed the death of modernism and promoted a new, nonlinear way of approaching architecture and design, spearheaded by Michael Graves,
Robert Venturi, Ettore Sottsass, and Alessandro Mendini.
A book on Habib Fida Ali's greatest works was appropriately titled "A Labour of Love." Fida Ali's architectural insight was deeply influenced and inspired by the famed American architect
Robert Venturi, who opposed traditional opinions and provided alternate ways in face of established conventions.
An architect, he completed his professional apprenticeship with Pritzker Prize winners
Robert Venturi and Fumihiko Maki.
Until Dec 28 Video works by Javier Bosques, Kazumi Tanaka, and others: lectures by artists Rowland Ricketts and Cynthia Hopkins: and a
Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown-inspired Powered by PechaKutcha event
One might be surprised to learn, for example, that Marc Newson's Embryo chair, resembling a sleek black squeaky toy on steel legs, shared the 1980s with
Robert Venturi's Louis XVI chest, a jazzed-up tribute to neoclassicism.
In the 1972 architecture classic Learning from Las Vegas, architects
Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown, and Steven Izenour documented the city from the window of a moving car.