Robert Venturi, an iconoclastic architect often ... glassy perfection with cold, glassy buildings. He argued instead that architecture should reflect changing times and social needs.

"Less is a bore," was the maxim that architect Robert Venturi was known for ... Here are some of our favorite buildings that Venturi and his wife brought to life. Venturi's Lieb House—which ...

Robert Venturi was an iconoclastic architect often ... glassy perfection with cold, glassy buildings. He argued instead that architecture should reflect changing times and social needs.

The news last week that Robert Venturi is retiring from ... the book that overturned the orthodoxy. Venturi argued that modern buildings were simplistic and reductivist, and that they aspired ...

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 ...

To which the highly influential Philadelphia architect Robert Venturi once replied: “Less is a bore.” Through books and buildings, Venturi, who died Tuesday in his Philadelphia home at age 93 ...

In buildings such as the extension of the Allen ... ‘I agreed with everything you said. My name’s Robert Venturi.’ And I replied, ‘If you agreed with me, why didn’t you say anything?’ ” ...

Robert Venturi, the American architect who designed the Seattle Art Museum and whose buildings and best-selling books helped inspire the movement known as postmodernism, in which historic elements ...

She and Robert Venturi, her partner and husband, have designed iconic buildings together for 40 years – yet she was excluded when Venturi was awarded the highest honor in architecture in 1991 ...

Annabelle Selldorf’s renovations of the Sainsbury Wing allow it to comfortably accommodate more visitors while better ...

Image Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown in Philadelphia in 1968. Their postmodern buildings and writings drew from history and pop culture. “Less is a bore,” Venturi wrote.Credit ...