Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown
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Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown, Venturi in full Robert Charles Venturi and Scott Brown née Lakofski, (respectively, born June 25, 1925, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.—died September 18, 2018, Philadelphia; born October 3, 1931, Nkana, Northern Rhodesia [now Zambia]), American architects who proposed alternatives to the functionalist mainstream of 20th-century American architectural design. Their design partnership was at the vanguard of the eclectic movement known as postmodernism. Venturi studied at the Princeton University School of Architecture in New Jersey, where he received a B.A. in 1947 and an M.F.A. in 1950. Between 1950 and 1958 he worked as a designer for ...(100 of 714 words)