Robert Venturi

Robert Venturi ( born June 25, 1925 in Philadelphia ) is an American architect. He is considered an important representative of postmodern architecture, especially as a theorist and publicist. In 1991 he was awarded the Pritzker Prize and since 1997 Honorary Member of the Association of German Architects BDA. In Learning from Las Vegas Venturi referred to the example of the Las Vegas Strip, the central main street of Las Vegas, the everyday architecture in America and raises them at the center of the architectural debate. Not the structures of modernity are " functional", but just the trivial and sometimes ugly forms of construction, which accounts for the majority of the cities and put their real functionality every day in practice to the test.

Publications

• " Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture " ( 1966), German: Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture, Bauwelt foundations Volume 50, Wiesbaden 197, Birkhäuser Verlag 2007?
• " Learning from Las Vegas ", together with his office partner and wife Denise Scott Brown and Steven Izenour (1972 ) In German language: Learning from Las Vegas: On the iconography and symbolism of the architecture business city, Bauwelt foundations Volume 53, Bertelsmann, Gütersloh 2003 ISBN 3-7643-6362-2

All books are available in German.

Important buildings (selection)

• The Vanna Venturi built for his mother Vanna Venturi House, Chestnut Hill ( Pennsylvania) ( 1959-1964 )
• The Altenwohnheim Guild House in Philadelphia ( Pennsylvania) ( 1960-1966 )
• The Humanities Building of the State University of New York ( 1973)
• The Sainsbury Wing of the National Gallery, London, United Kingdom (1985-1991)
• Coxe - Hayden House and Studio, block Iceland, Rhode Iceland, USA, (1980 )
• Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington, USA, 1991.