Robert Venturi

Details

Nationality

American

Classifications

Holder

Individual

Source of authority

ObservationReason

Subject

Human centred

Mode of transmission

Text drawing

Knowledge type

Propositional

Epistemic cluster

Western philosophical

Notes

[DRAFT] American architect whose Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture (1966) — 'less is a bore' — and Learning from Las Vegas (1972, with Scott Brown and Izenour) made the ordinary, commercial and symbolic central to architecture, founding postmodern theory.

Connections

• influenced Kim Dovey
• critiqued Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
• collaborated with Denise Scott Brown
• proposed The Decorated Shed and the Duck
• reacted against Modernism

Referenced by

• Steven Izenour collaborated with

Sources

1. Robert Venturi. Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture. Museum of Modern Art, 1966.
2. Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown and Steven Izenour. Learning from Las Vegas. MIT Press, 1972.