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Iwan Baan Surveys the Curious Likeness of Two Capitals of Power and Play in ‘Rome–Las Vegas’

Excerpt: Rome–Las Vegas: Bread and Circuses, by Iwan Baan

August 26, 2024

The new book of photography, featuring essays by RECORD contributing editor Izzy Kornblatt and others, comes 50 years after the publication of ‘Learning from Las Vegas.’

Obituary: Robert Venturi, 1925–2018

Miriam Sitz

September 19, 2018

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Hailed as a catalyzing force of the Postmodern architecture style, the Princeton-trained architect has died at the age of 93.

Robert Venturi's Rome

By Frederick Fisher and Stephen Harby

Martino Stierli

February 28, 2018

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A new book discusses how Robert Venturi's two-year stay as a fellow in Rome shaped his thoughts on architecture.

‘Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture’ at 50

Robert Venturi’s seminal work is celebrated and scrutinized at a three-day symposium.

Suzanne Stephens

November 16, 2016

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“It’s like a gathering to decipher the Talmud,” architectural historian Jean-Louis Cohen observed at a three-day symposium of scholars, architects, and students discussing Robert Venturi’s famous opus, Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture, published 50 years ago.

Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture Turns 50

Charles Jencks

May 1, 2016

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When Robert Venturi’s Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture was published 50 years ago, Vincent Scully announced in the introduction that it was “probably the most important writing on the making of architecture since Le Corbusier’s Vers une Architecture” of 1923.

Denise Scott Brown & Robert Venturi Win 2016 AIA Gold Medal

Seattle’s LMN Architects Receives Firm of the Year Award

Anna Fixsen

December 2, 2015

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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. Seattle’s LMN Architects received the Firm of the Year Award

Iconic Vanna Venturi House on the Market

Anna Fixsen

July 20, 2015

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One of America’s most historically significant works of architecture is up for sale.

Cathleen McGuigan Laura Mirviss

December 11, 2014

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“It’s not ripping my flesh off,” says Denise Scott Brown of the loss. Photo Venturi Scott Brown and Associates Denise Scott Brown in Las Vegas in 1968. There’s a long shadow hanging over the AIA Gold Medal for 2015. Yesterday, the institute announced that Moshe Safdie is next year’s winner—a surprise for those who were expecting Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown to get the prize. This was the first year Venturi and Scott Brown were jointly eligible because of a change in the rules to allow two architects to win the award together. That change was made in the

Suzanne Stephens

July 25, 2012

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Denise Scott Brown and Robert Venturi, founders of the eminent Philadelphia firm Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates, announced on Monday that they have passed the baton to president and principal Daniel K. McCoubrey and principal Nancy Rogo Trainer. Under McCoubrey's and Trainer's leadership, the firm is now known as VSBA. Scott Brown spoke with Architectural Record about the long-planned transition, her continued writing and research, and Venturi's retirement. Daniel McCoubrey and his team at VSBA completed the renovations and additions to Pennsylvania's Allentown Art Museum in 2012. Even logical transitions often come as a surprise. Take the news that the

Venturi, Scott Brown Designs Decorated Shed for Lincoln Highway

Charles Linn, FAIA

September 15, 2009

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Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates recently completed schematic design for the Lincoln Highway Experience, a new museum and visitors center that will celebrate the first road in the U.S. that stretched from coast to coast.

Credits: 1 AIA LU/HSW; 1 AIBD P-CE; 0.1 ICC CEU; 0.1 IACET CEU

In this course, you will learn about the benefits of utilizing terra cotta wall cladding as well as how they are manufactured and installed.

Credits: 1 AIA LU/HSW; 1 AIBD P-CE; 0.1 ICC CEU; 0.1 IACET CEU

This course will examine how noncombustible steel deck framing makes it possible to meet stringent building and fire codes in Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) zones.