Venturi, Scott Brown & Associates - Background:
Robert Charles Venturi
1925 -

American architect, famous for espousing an anti-Modern view - Complexity and Contradiction - connected with Postmodern and Neoclassical architecture.

Robert Venturi - Education:
Graduation - Princeton University in 1947; M.F.A. - Princeton University 1950

Venturi, Scott Brown & Associates - Key Buildings (alphabetical):
Guild House, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Hôtel du Département de la Haute-Garonne, Toulouse, France 2005
Institute for Scientific Information, Philadelphia, USA 1979
Sainsbury Wing - National Gallery Extension, London, UK
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington, USA
Vanna Venturi House, Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA 1962

Robert Venturi - Career:
Venturi worked as an architect for Eero Saarinen and Louis Kahn.
Faculty member at the University of Pennsylvania

Set up practice in 1958, later with John Rauch in 1964. Denise Scott Brown, architect and planner, joined in 1967. Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates, Inc. set up in 1989 after John Rauch resigned. Architects' office located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Robert Venturi : Pritzker Prize 1991

Venturi Book:
Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture
1966

The Vanna Venturi House is referenced in most key architecture histories and was designed for Venturi's mother

Venturi, Scott Brown & Associates Buildings (recent, chronological):
Biomedical / Biological Sciences Research Building, Lexington, Kentucky, USA
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Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates in association with A. M. Kinney + HERA
Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates : University of Kentucky building

Schlesinger Library - Renovation, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
2004
Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates
Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates : Harvard University building

Lehigh Valley Hospital - expansion, Muhlenberg, Pennsylvania, USA
2005
FreemanWhite, Inc. with Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates, Inc.
Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates : Lehigh Valley Hospital building

Hôtel du Département de la Haute-Garonne, Toulouse, France
2005

Venturi, Scott Brown & Associates Buildings (older, chronological):
Gordon Wu Hall, Princeton, New Jersey, USA
1983
Sainsbury Wing - National Gallery Extension, London, UK
1991
Guild House, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington, USA
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Brant-Johnson House, Vail, Colorado, USA
1977
Allen Art Museum Addition, Oberlin, Ohio, USA
1973-76
House, Tucker Town, Bermuda
1975
Tucker House, Mount Kisco, New York, USA
1975
Trubek House, Nantucket Island, Massachusetts, USA
1972
Brant House, Greenwich, Connecticut, USA
1972
Vanna Venturi House, at Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
1962
For Robert’s mother, Vanna

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