At an awards luncheon on April 27th, 2010, Robert Venturi & Denise Scott Brown were presented with the Anne d’Harnoncourt Award for Artistic Excellence. Given by the Arts & Business Council of Greater Philadelphia, the Anne d’Harnoncourt Award recognizes individuals who have made lifetime contributions to American culture through the arts.

Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown received this year’s Cooper-Hewitt Design Mind Award, which recognizes a visionary who has affected a paradigm shift in design thinking or practice through writing, research, and scholarship. Each year, the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, a New York arm of the Smithsonian Institution, presents the National Design Award in […]

By Catesby Leigh (The Wall Street Journal, 12/28/06)
Philadelphia — “We’ve been highly unfashionable for some years,” Denise Scott Brown, wife and partner of architect Robert Venturi, bluntly observes during an interview at the Venturis’ office in Philadelphia’s Manayunk neighborhood. Though true, the statement might come as a surprise. While he never quite attained the celebrity […]

We found this song on the web by post-punk rapper MC Lars that has Bob in it.
This song is futuristic, so hardcore
Hey T.S. Eliot! Please shut the door
Because modernism is so passé
The postmodern revolution is here to stay
In the house tonight because of Frank Lloyd Wright
The bass goes “boom!” like dynamite
“Yo, Wright was a […]

Although I never followed through on becoming an architect after studying it as an undergraduate at Penn, Robert Venturi has remained as somewhat of a spiritual leader for me. Unlike so many architects (or for that matter, so many professionals) who have built their famous careers on pomp & circumstance and have chosen fame and […]