Editing Robert Venturi (section)

==Architecture==
[[File:Guildhouse Philly.JPG|thumb|The [[Guild House (Philadelphia)|Guild House]], completed 1964, on Spring Garden Street in [[Philadelphia]]]]
[[File:Espicopal Acad int.JPG|thumb|Chapel at the Episcopal Academy in [[Newtown Square, Pennsylvania]] (2010)]]
The architecture of Robert Venturi, although perhaps not as familiar today as his books, helped redirect American architecture away from a widely practiced modernism in the 1960s to a more exploratory design approach that openly drew lessons from architectural history and responded to the everyday context of the American city.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.archdaily.com/130389/interview-robert-venturi-denise-scott-brown-by-andrea-tamas |title=Interview: Robert Venturi & Denise Scott Brown |date=April 25, 2011 |publisher=Archdaily.com}}</ref> Venturi's buildings typically juxtapose architectural systems, elements and aims, to acknowledge the conflicts often inherent in a project or site. This "inclusive" approach contrasted with the typical modernist effort to resolve and unify all factors in a complete and rigidly structured—and possibly less functional and more simplistic—work of art. The diverse range of buildings of Venturi's early career offered surprising alternatives to then current architectural practice, with "impure" forms (such as the North Penn Visiting Nurses Headquarters), apparently casual asymmetries (as at the Vanna Venturi House), and pop-style supergraphics and geometries (for instance, the Lieb House).

Venturi created the firm Venturi and Short with William Short in 1960. In his architectural design Venturi was influenced by early masters such as [[Michelangelo]] and [[Andrea Palladio|Palladio]], and modern masters including [[Le Corbusier]], [[Alvar Aalto]], [[Louis Kahn]] and [[Eero Saarinen]].<ref>{{Cite book|title=Encyclopedia of the City|last=Caves|first=R. W.|publisher=Routledge|year=2004|isbn=978-0415862875|pages=749}}</ref> After John Rauch replaced Short as partner in 1964, the firm's name changed to Venturi and Rauch. Venturi married [[Denise Scott Brown]] on July 23, 1967, in [[Santa Monica, California]], and in 1969, Scott Brown joined the firm as partner in charge of planning. In 1980, The firm's name became Venturi, Rauch, and Scott Brown, and after Rauch's resignation in 1989, Venturi, Scott Brown, and Associates. The firm, based in [[Manayunk, Philadelphia]], was awarded the Architecture Firm Award by the [[American Institute of Architects]] in 1985.  The practice's recent work includes many commissions from academic institutions, including campus planning and university buildings, and civic buildings in London, [[Toulouse]], and Japan.

Venturi's architecture has had worldwide influence, beginning in the late 1960s with the dissemination of the broken-gable roof of the Vanna Venturi House and the segmentally arched window and interrupted string courses of Guild House. The playful variations on vernacular house types seen in the Trubeck and Wislocki Houses offered a new way to embrace, but transform, familiar forms.  The facade patterning of the Oberlin Art Museum and the laboratory buildings demonstrated a treatment of the vertical surfaces of buildings that is both decorative and abstract, drawing from vernacular and historic architecture while still being modern. Venturi's work arguably provided a key influence at important times in the careers of architects [[Robert A. M. Stern]], [[Rem Koolhaas]], [[Philip Johnson]], [[Michael Graves]], [[Graham Gund]] and [[James Stirling (architect)|James Stirling]], among others.{{Citation needed|date=April 2018}}

Venturi was a Fellow of the [[American Academy in Rome]], the [[American Institute of Architects]], [[The American Academy of Arts and Letters]] and an Honorary Fellow of the [[Royal Institute of British Architects]].