VINTAGE LITHOGRAPH FLORAL PRINT BY ROBERT VENTURI AND DENISE SCOTT BROWN - SIGNED

12" x 12"

Robert Venturi 

American, 1925-2018.  

Robert Venturi graduated summa cum laude from Princeton University in 1947 and received his Master of Fine Arts degree, also from Princeton, in 1950. He furthered his studies as a Rome Prize Fellow at the American Academy in Rome from 1954 to 1956. In the following three decades, he lectured at numerous institutions including Yale, Princeton, Harvard, the University of California at Los Angeles, Rice University and the American Academy in Rome. He and his wife, fellow accomplished architect and planner Denise Scott Brown, practiced architecture, writing critical architectural theory and teaching together since the mid-1960s. Their award-winning work includes building projects such as the Seattle Art Museum; a new wing for the National Gallery, London; Gordon Wu Hall at Princeton University, as well as Venturi’s early works: Vanna Venturi House in Philadelphia, his mother’s residence, and the facade for Best Products in Oxford Valley, Pennsylvania. Venturi’s theoretical writing has been critical to the development and understanding of postmodern theory in architecture, from Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture, to Learning from Las Vegas, written with Denise Scott Brown and their colleague Steven Izenour. Their four decades of architectural and design work was the subject of Out of the Ordinary: Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown and Associates, a 2001 exhibition organized by the Philadelphia Museum of Art, which traveled to the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, and The Heinz Architectural Center at the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh. 

Denise Scott Brown 

American, born Zambia 1931, lives in Philadelphia.  

Denise Scott Brown studied architecture at University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa; Architectural Association, London; and earned her M. Arch. and MCP from the University of Pennsylvania in 1965. She has lectured extensively at institutions such as the University of Pennsylvania, University of California, Berkeley, Yale University, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Together with her husband and lifelong collaborator, Robert Venturi, Scott Brown published the books The View from the Campidoglio (1984); Architecture and Decorative Arts, Two Naifs in Japan (1991); and Architecture as Signs and Systems for a Mannerist Time (2004). She is the recipient of the Jane Drew Prize for Women in Architecture (2017), National Planning Award for a Planning Pioneer from the American Planning Association with Robert Venturi (2014), and the Harvard Radcliffe Institute Medal (2005), among others. Scott Brown’s many honorary doctorates include degrees from Drexel University, University of Witwatersrand, Parsons School of Design, and Pratt Institute.