Robert Venturi, the Philadelphia-based architect whose buildings and writings championed “messy vitality” above the rational order of Modernism, died last week at age 93. For generations of architects ...

This is your first of three free stories this month. Become a free or sustaining member to read unlimited articles, webinars and ebooks. Robert Venturi, the reluctant father of post-modern ...

Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown, his wife and professional partner, in the late 1960s at their office in Philadelphia. George Pohl, Via the Architectural Archives / NYT I learned to love Robert ...

Architect Robert Venturi, who rejected austere modern design and instead ushered in postmodern complexity with the dictum "Less is a bore," has died. He was 93. His family released a statement on his ...

Renowned Philadelphia architect Robert Venturi was often asked if he would accept a nomination for the American Institute of Architects' highest award, the Gold Medal, for his groundbreaking work in ...

Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture is not an easy book, or so we were told by Vincent Scully in the introduction to Robert Venturi’s seminal 1966 publication. The book’s release is the stuff ...

The phrase “less is more” is inextricably linked to the great Chicago modern architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. To which the highly influential Philadelphia architect Robert Venturi once replied: ...

Editor’s Note: Robert A. Ivy, FAIA, is the EVP/Chief Executive Officer at the American Institute of Architects (AIA), and former Editor-in-Chief of Architectural Record. Denise Scott Brown and Robert ...

Robert Venturi, a giant of postmodern architecture, died on Tuesday. Venturi's family released a statement Wednesday to The Architect's Newspaper: "Last night, Robert Venturi passed away peacefully at ...

Robert Venturi ’47 GS ’50, an acclaimed architect whose designs and writings transformed the field and sparked the postmodernist movement, died in his home on Tuesday, Sept. 18. He was 93. Venturi ...

Reporting from Philadelphia — Architect Robert Venturi, who rejected austere modern design and instead ushered in postmodern complexity with the dictum “less is a bore,” has died. He was 93. His ...

Robert Venturi, a giant of postmodern architecture, died on Tuesday. Venturi's family released a statement Wednesday to The Architect's Newspaper: "Last night, Robert Venturi passed away peacefully at ...