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".
Important works by his firm include: