Editing Robert Venturi (section)

==Early life and education==
Venturi was born in [[Philadelphia]] to Robert Venturi Sr. and Vanna (née Luizi) Venturi, and was raised as a [[Quakers|Quaker]].<ref name=yearbook>The Nassau Herald 1947, Princeton University yearbook</ref> Venturi attended school at the [[Episcopal Academy]] in [[Merion]], [[Pennsylvania]].<ref>{{cite book
  | last =Thomas  | first =George E.  | title =William L. Price, Arts and Crafts to Modern Design
  | publisher =Princeton Architectural Press| year =2000 | pages =362
  | url =https://books.google.com/books?id=m19alHeSKVwC
  | isbn=1-56898-220-8 }} in Introduction by Robert Venturi</ref>  He graduated ''[[summa cum laude]]'' from [[Princeton University]] in 1947 where he was a member-elect of [[Phi Beta Kappa]] and won the D'Amato Prize in Architecture.<ref name=yearbook/> He received his [[Master of Fine Arts|M.F.A.]] from Princeton in 1950. The educational program at Princeton under Professor Jean Labatut, who offered provocative design studios  within a Beaux-Arts pedagogical framework,<ref>{{cite book  | last =Otero-Pailos  | first =Jorge  | title =Architecture's Historical Turn: Phenomenology and the Rise of the Postmodern  | publisher =University of Minnesota Press| year =2010 | pages =25–99  | url =https://books.google.com/books?id=3WDOQgAACAAJ&q=architecture's%20historical%20turn  | isbn=9780816666041}}</ref> was a key factor in Venturi's development of an approach to [[architectural theory]] and design that drew from architectural history and commercial architecture in analytical, as opposed to stylistic, terms.<ref name="PritzkerPrize">[http://www.pritzkerprize.com/laureates/1991/bio.html Robert Venturi 1991 Laureate] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101221235103/http://pritzkerprize.com/laureates/1991/bio.html |date=December 21, 2010 }} Pritzker Architecture Prize</ref>  In 1951 he briefly worked under [[Eero Saarinen]] in [[Bloomfield Hills, Michigan]], and later for [[Louis Kahn]] in Philadelphia.  He was awarded the [[Rome Prize Fellowship]] at the [[American Academy in Rome]] in 1954, where he studied and toured Europe for two years.

From 1959 to 1967, Venturi held teaching positions at the [[University of Pennsylvania]], where he served as Kahn's teaching assistant, an instructor, and later, as associate professor. It was there, in 1960, that he met fellow faculty member, architect and planner [[Denise Scott Brown]]. Venturi taught later at the [[Yale School of Architecture]] and was a visiting lecturer with Scott Brown in 2003 at the [[Harvard Graduate School of Design|Graduate School of Design]] at [[Harvard University]].