Theorist
Robert Venturi
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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
Connections
- proposed The Decorated Shed and the Duck
- collaborated with Denise Scott Brown
- critiqued Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
- influenced Kim Dovey
- reacted against Modernism
Referenced by
- Steven Izenour collaborated with
Sources
- Robert Venturi. Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture. Museum of Modern Art, 1966.
- Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown and Steven Izenour. Learning from Las Vegas. MIT Press, 1972.
Cite this entry
First published May 2026Last revised Jul 2026
CLAD. "Robert Venturi." Atlas of Architectural Thought. CLAD, 2026. https://www.cl-ad.com.au/research/atlas/theorist/robert-venturi/. Accessed September 1, 2026.