biography
pronunciation:
[ventooree]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1925– )
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| biography:
| Architect and writer, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. He studied at Princeton, then worked for Louis Kahn before establishing the Philadelphia firm with John Keiser Rauch (1930– ) that became Venturi, Rauch, Scott Brown and Associates (1958). He spearheaded the reaction against Modernism by embracing historical and popular architectural styles, most notoriously the common commercial strip. His seminal Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture (1966) and Learning from Las Vegas - with Denise Scott Brown, his wife as well as partner, and Steven Izenour - (1972) have been influential. His buildings include the Sainsbury Wing of the National Gallery, London (1991). He won the Pritzker Prize in 1991. |
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