Venturi, Robert (Charles)
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U.S. architect.
He studied at Princeton University and in Rome at the American Academy. After working with Eero Saarinen and Louis Kahn, he formed a partnership with his wife, Denise Scott Brown, and John Rauch. His philosophy, set forth in the influential books
Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture (1966) and
Learning from Las Vegas (1972), called for openness to the multiple influences of historical tradition, ordinary commercial architecture, and
Pop art. He had such a profound impact on younger architects who were beginning to find similar constraints and limitations in the
Modernist architectural aesthetic, that he became the unofficial dean of the
postmodern movement in architecture. His buildings often exhibit ironic humour. Important commissions include buildings for Princeton and the University of Pennsylvania, the Seattle Art Museum (1985–91), and the Sainsbury Wing of London's National Gallery (1986–91). He won the 1991 Pritzker Architecture Prize.
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2010.
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