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.jpg) Venturi in 2008 | |
| Born | Robert Charles Venturi Jr. June 25, 1925 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Died | September 18, 2018 (aged 93) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Princeton University |
| Occupation | Architect |
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| Children | 1 |
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Robert Charles Venturi Jr. (June 25, 1925 – September 18, 2018) was an American architect, founding principal of the firm Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates.
Together with his wife and partner, Denise Scott Brown, he helped shape the way that architects, planners and students experience and think about architecture and the built environment. Their buildings, planning, theoretical writings, and teaching have also contributed to the expansion of discourse about architecture.
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. Subsequently, a group of women architects attempted to get her name added retroactively to the prize, but the Pritzker Prize jury declined to do so.[1][2][3] Venturi coined the maxim "Less is a bore", a postmodern antidote to Mies van der Rohe's famous modernist dictum "Less is more". Venturi lived in Philadelphia with Denise Scott Brown. He is the father of James Venturi, founder and principal of ReThink Studio.
- ^ Pogrebin, Robin (June 14, 2013). "No Pritzker Prize for Denise Scott Brown". The New York Times.
- ^ Catriona Davies (May 29, 2013). "Denise Scott Brown: Architecture favors 'lone male genius' over women". CNN.
- ^ Goldberger, Paul (April 14, 1991). "ARCHITECTURE VIEW; Robert Venturi, Gentle Subverter of Modernism". The New York Times.