Venturi, Scott Brown & Associates, VSBA Architects, American Design Practice, Projects
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Robert Charles Venturi + Denise Scott Brown, USA Architecture Firm News and Information
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Venturi, Scott Brown – Key Projects
This architecture practice now uses the title: VSBA, LLC / Architects & Planners
3 Dec 2015
Denise Scott Brown & Robert Venturi Win 2016 AIA Gold Medal
The American Institute of Architects (AIA) announced Denise Scott Brown and her husband and partner Robert Venturi as recipients of the 2016 AIA Gold Medal, the organization’s highest honor, reports the Architectural Record. Seattle’s LMN Architects received the Firm of the Year Award.
Denise Scott Brown & Robert Venturi Win 2016 AIA Gold Medal
Scott Brown is the first living woman to receive the award (Julia Morgan posthumously received the honor in 2014). The architect recalls past Gold Medal nominations, but as a duo, the pair was not eligible for the prize, historically awarded to a single architect. “Bob said, ‘Not without Denise,’” she says. “There were people who said that Bob was being quixotic and that I was being selfish.”
Venturi, Scott Brown & Associates – Key Buildings, alphabetical:
AltenwohnheimGuild House, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Dates built: 1960–66
photograph : wikimedia commons
Hôtel du Département de la Haute-Garonne, Toulouse, France
Date built: 2005
Institute for Scientific Information, Philadelphia, USA
Date built: 1979
Sainsbury Wing – National Gallery Extension, London, UK
Date built: 1991
Venturi, Scott Brown & Associates
photograph © Nick Weall
National Gallery Extension : Sainsbury Wing – 16 photos
The proposal by ABK was infamously described by Prince Charles [May 30, 1984] as being “a monstrous carbuncle on the face of a much-loved and elegant friend”.
ABK’s design was abandoned.
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington, USA
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Vanna Venturi House, Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Dates built: 1959-62/64
photograph : wikimedia commons
Venturi, Scott Brown & Associates Buildings
Recent Projects, chronological:
Biomedical / Biological Sciences Research Building, Lexington, Kentucky, USA
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Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates in association with A. M. Kinney + HERA
Kentucky Architecture : University of Kentucky building
Schlesinger Library – Renovation, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Date built: 2004
Massachusetts Architecture : Harvard University building
Lehigh Valley Hospital – expansion, Muhlenberg, Pennsylvania, USA
Date built: 2005
FreemanWhite, Inc. with Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates, Inc.
Pennsylvania Architecture : Lehigh Valley Hospital building
Hôtel du Département de la Haute-Garonne, Toulouse, France
2005
Venturi, Scott Brown & Associates Buildings (older, chronological):
Gordon Wu Hall, Princeton, New Jersey, USA
1983
Sainsbury Wing – National Gallery Extension, London, UK
1991
Guild House, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington, USA
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Brant-Johnson House, Vail, Colorado, USA
1977
Allen Art Museum Addition, Oberlin, Ohio, USA
1973-76
House, Tucker Town, Bermuda
1975
Tucker House, Mount Kisco, New York, USA
1975
Trubek House, Nantucket Island, Massachusetts, USA
1972
Brant House, Greenwich, Connecticut, USA
1972
Vanna Venturi House, at Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
1962
For Robert’s mother, Vanna
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Location: 4236 Main Street Philadelphia, PA 19127-1696, USA
Venturi Scott Brown & Associates Architecture Practice Information
Background
Robert Charles Venturi
1925-
American architect, famous for espousing an anti-Modern view – Complexity and Contradiction – connected with Postmodern and Neoclassical architecture.
Robert Venturi Education
Graduation – Princeton University in 1947; M.F.A. – Princeton University 1950
Robert Venturi Career
Venturi worked as an architect for Eero Saarinen and Louis Kahn.
Faculty member at the University of Pennsylvania
They set up the architecture practice in 1958, later with John Rauch in 1964. Denise Scott Brown, architect and planner, joined in 1967. Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates, Inc. set up in 1989 after John Rauch resigned. Architects’ office located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Pritzker Prize Architects : Robert Venturi won in 1991
Venturi Book
Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture
1966
The Vanna Venturi House is referenced in most key architecture histories and was designed for Venturi’s mother
Trafalgar Square : Sainsbury Wing – National Gallery Extension context
photograph of National Gallery © Nick Weall
Over the course of their joint careers Scott Brown and Venturi designed dozens of projects and master plans including the Mielparque Nikko Kirifuri Hotel and Spa in Japan, Franklin Court in Philadelphia, the Episcopal Academy Chapel in Newtown Square, Pennsylvania, the National Gallery’s Sainsbury Wing in London. The Vanna Venturi house (1964), in Chestnut Hill, Pennsylvania is viewed as a major catalyst of the postmodernist movement.
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