Robert Venturi
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 Rausch. Venturi's wife Denise Scott Brown joined the firm. He 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:
- Guild House, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- The book Learning from Las Vegas