Robert 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, Scott Brown.
14 Facts About Robert Venturi
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Robert Venturi is known for having coined the maxim "Less is a bore", a postmodern antidote to Mies van der Rohe's famous modernist dictum "Less is more".
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Robert Venturi is the father of James Venturi, founder and principal of ReThink Studio.
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Robert Venturi attended school at the Episcopal Academy in Merion, Pennsylvania.
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Robert Venturi was awarded the Rome Prize Fellowship at the American Academy in Rome in 1954, where he studied and toured Europe for two years.
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From 1959 to 1967, Robert Venturi held teaching positions at the University of Pennsylvania, where he served as Kahn's teaching assistant, an instructor, and later, as associate professor.
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Robert Venturi taught later at the Yale School of Architecture and was a visiting lecturer with Scott Brown in 2003 at Harvard University's Graduate School of Design.
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Immediately hailed as a theorist and designer with radical ideas, Robert Venturi went to teach a series of studios at the Yale School of Architecture in the mid-1960s.
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Robert Venturi created the firm Robert Venturi and Short with William Short in 1960.
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Robert Venturi married Denise Scott Brown on July 23,1967, in Santa Monica, California, and in 1969, Scott Brown joined the firm as partner in charge of planning.
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Robert Venturi's architecture has had worldwide influence, beginning in the late 1960s with the dissemination of the broken-gable roof of the Vanna Robert Venturi House and the segmentally arched window and interrupted string courses of Guild House.
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Venturi's work arguably provided a key influence at important times in the careers of architects Robert AM Stern, Rem Koolhaas, Philip Johnson, Michael Graves, Graham Gund and James Stirling, among others.
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Robert Venturi was a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome, the American Institute of Architects, The American Academy of Arts and Letters and an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects.
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Robert Venturi died on September 18,2018, in Philadelphia from complications of Alzheimer's disease.