Robert Venturi Architect

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architecture

1. post modern architect of united states2. one of the major figures in the architecture of the 20th

century

3. He is also known for coining the maxim "Less is a bore" as antidote to Mies van der Rohe's famous modernist dictum "Less is more“

4. architecture of robert venturi helped redirect american architecture away from a widely practiced, often banal, modernism in the 1960's to a more exploratory, and ultimately eclectic, design approach that openly drew lessons from historic architecture and responded to the everyday context of the American city.

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birth in philadelphia , pennsylvania

graduated high honor from princeton

university

m.fa from princeton

worked under eero saarinen in bloomfield hills, michigan, and

later for louis kahn in philadelphia

rome prize fellowship at the american academy in

rome

completd vanna venturi house

published his "gentle manifesto," complexity

and contradiction in architecture”

married denise scott brown on july 23, 1967 in santa

monica, california

establised venturi, scott brown and associates

awarded the pritzker prize in architecture

national medal of arts& united states presidential award with denise scott

brown

vincent scully prize, national building museum; 2002 with

denise scott brown

architecture

Venturi's buildings typically juxtapose architectural systems, elements and aims, to acknowledge the conflicts often inherent in a project or site

Robert Venturi is known for incorporating stylized cultural icons into his buildings.

However, Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates is recognized for much more than Postmodernist designs. The firm has completed more than 400 projects, each uniquely suited to the special needs of the clients.

major buildings

vanna venturi house National Gallery London Sainsbury Wing

Freedom PlazaTrabant Student Center

Chapel at the Episcopal

Seattle Art Museum

vannaventurihouse

vanna venturi house

1. one of the first prominent works of the postmodern architecture movement,

2. located in the suburban neighborhood of chestnut hill in philadelphia, pennsylvania

3. constructed between 1962 -1964.4. the five room house stands only about 30 feet tall at the

top of the chimney,5. monumental front facade6. an effect achieved by intentionally manipulating the

architectural elements that indicate a building's scale7. the central chimney and staircase dominate the interior

of the house

vanna venturi house

View from south

View from south east

vanna venturi house

1. Robert Venturi designed the house initially for his mother. 2. The House is designed around a chimney that is

centralised and goes all the way to the top of the house. 3. Externally, they house is built symmetrical.4. Venturi has distorted this idea of symmetry - for example,

there are 5 windows on the facade of the building, however he placed them differently.

5. There is also a basement underneath the house that is often not uncovered by people.

6. The chimney creates a clear vertically in the building, the is vi sable internally and externally

vanna venturi house

plans

vanna venturi house

section

vanna venturi house

vanna venturi house

interior

episcopal academy

chapel

episcopal academy chapel

Location Newtown Square, Philadelphia

Cost $8500000

Area 15000ft2

time 2008    . 

episcopal academy chapel

1. iconic campus landmark2.   The impressive and gently monumental scale of the

building is softened by striped patterns at pedestrian-level.

3. The interior is lit by means of two levels of clerestory windows

4. and from the interstices between over-lapping layers of walls, which allow indirect light to create aura.

episcopal academy chapel

ROBERT VENTURI, A CHAPEL FOR THE EPISCOPAL ACADEMY, 1950, THESIS DRAWING (UNBUILT) (COURTESY OF VENTURI, SCOTT BROWN AND ASSOCIATES, INC.)

episcopal academy chapel

Interior

episcopal academy chapel

planSouth elevatn

Inside, the 15,000 square foot chapel’s fan-shaped plan allows worshipers to face each other as well as the altar,altar

episcopal academy chapel

majorentrance x 3

aisles

chancel

episcopal academy chapel

its distinctive form many layers of masonry walls

the spaces between

these layers allow

circulation and light

episcopal academy chapel

night view

freedom plaza ,wdc

freedom plaza

The John A. Wilson Building, the seat of the District of Columbia government, faces the plaza, as does the historic National Theatre, which has been visited by every U.S. President since it opened in 1835.[2][3] Three large hotels are to the north and west.

freedom plaza

originally known as western plazaFreedom Plaza is a popular place for political protests, civic events, and (despite its official prohibition) skateboarding.

freedom plaza

quotes by famous people about washington, dc, are carved into the paving stones. designed by robert venturi in collaboration with landscape architect george e. patton

freedom plaza

constructed in 1980

the plaza is mostly composed of stone

inlaid with a depiction of parts of petercharles l'enfant's plan for the city of washington

most of the plaza is raised above street level

freedom plaza

night view