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Robert Venturi (born June 25, 1925) is a Philadelphia-based architect who worked under Eero Saarinen and Louis Kahn before forming his own firm with John Rauch . Venturi's wife Denise Scott Brown joined the firm. After John Rauch’s resignation in 1989, the firm took its current form and was named Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates.Robert Venturi won the Pritzker Prize in 1991. He is best described as a post-modernist because of his promotion of what has been called "kitsch of high capitalism".
He graduated summa cum laude from Princeton University in 1947 and received his M.F.A. there in 1950.
Important works by his firm include:
1 His writings
- Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture, New York 1966
- (with D. Scott Brown and S. Izenour) Learning from Las Vegas, Cambridge (Mass.) 1972
- Iconography and Electronics upon a Generic Architecture : A View from the Drafting Room, MIT Press, 1998
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