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 […]

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SHANGHAI - Bob and Denise delivered a lecture to a packed house at Tonji University in Shanghai. Many students had questions, but time constraints allowed only a few to be answered. Through this site many more of you can have your questions answered. Bob and Denise have agreed to do their best to […]