Robert Venturi

See also: Venturi (homonymy)

Robert Venturi , born the June 25th 1925 with Philadelphia (the United States) is a American Architecte post-modern.

After being graduate with the University of Princeton in 1947, it obtains a MFA in 1950 there. It continues its studies of 1954 to 1956 with the American Académie of Rome where it obtained a purse and where it falls under the influence from the Maniérisme and of the Baroque. He collaborates with Eero Saarinen and Louis Kahn before opening his own agency in 1958. In 1964 it joins John Rauch and a few years later his wife Denise Scott Brown, itself architect, joined the agency. After the departure of John Rauch in 1989, the agency took the name of Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates .

It obtained the prestigious Prix Pritzker in 1991. He taught in many universities (Yale, Princeton, Harvard, UCLA).

He built many buildings but it is especially its theoretical work which had a strong influence.

The study Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture published by the Museum off Modern art of New York in 1966, mark indeed the one time end, and no one another treaty will not have similar influence on the course of architecture during the three last decades of the 20th century. Without having its repercussion of it, its work has a range similar to that which had had in its time Towards an architecture of Le Corbusier.

The work of Venturi is heterogeneous in the sense that it as well includes/understands projects of urban development as of the villas, museums that supermarkets, houses of beach that research institutes. One of its principal achievements is an old people's home, Guid house in Philadelphia (1960-1963) from which Venturi is used for still readily to support its theses on the ugly one, the ordinary one and symbolic system in architecture. At the same period, it builds for his mother a petitre house in Chestnut Hill, close to Philadelphia; true report of its ideas and diversity and antagonism, it breaks with all functionalist conventions and does not move back in front of any perturbing visual effect, such its staircase placed against a wall.

Principal achievements

  • 1962 : Maison Winnowed Venturi with Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: it uses distorts it Dessins symmetry and photographs
  • 1960-1963: Guild House in Philadelphia in Pennsylvania
  • 1966-1968: Barracks of the firemen to Columbus in the Indiana
  • 1970: House Trubek with Nantucket Island, Massachusetts: out of wood, of inspiration mannerist
  • 1970: House Wislocki in Nantucket Island, Massachusetts
  • 1973: House Brant with Greenwich, Connecticut
  • 1973-1976: Extension of the Allen Art Museum to Oberlin, Ohio
  • 1975: particular House with Tucker Town (Bermuda)
  • 1975: House Tucker in Mount Kisco, New York
  • 1983: House Gordon Wu at the University of Princeton, New Jersey
  • 1990: Extension of the National Gallery to London
  • 1992-1999: Hotel of the department of the Haute-Garonne to Toulouse, in collaboration with Anderson/Schwartz Architects and Hermet-White-Delagausie-Mommens/Workshop A4 Photos

Its writings

  • Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture , New York 1966 (transl. france Of ambiguity in architecture )
  • with D. Scott Brown and S. Izenour, Learning from Las Vegas , Cambridge (Farmhouse.) 1972 (transl. france the teaching of Las Vegas ): it makes in particular the analysis of the Strip and formulates the concept of " hangar décoré" , that he opposes to that " canard" , in reference to the restaurant " Length Island Duckling" , in the duck shape.
  • Iconography and Electronics upon has Generic Architecture: In View from the Drafting Room , MIT Near, 1996

External bonds

  1. Official site of the agency Venturi, Scott Brown & Associates (in English)
  2. Biography on the site of the Pritzker Price (in English)

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