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Robert Venturi

1925 - 2018

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Robert Charles Venturi Jr. (June 25, 1925 – September 18, 2018) was an American architect, founding principal of the firm Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates. Together with his wife and partner, Denise Scott Brown, he helped shape the way that architects, planners and students experience and think about architecture and the built environment. Their buildings, planning, theoretical writings, and teaching have also contributed to the expansion of discourse about architecture. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Robert Venturi is the 84th most popular architect (down from 76th in 2019), the 1,213th most popular biography from United States (down from 846th in 2019) and the 6th most popular American Architect.

Robert Venturi is most famous for his work on the Vanna Venturi House in Philadelphia.

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Among ARCHITECTS

Among architects, Robert Venturi ranks 84 out of 518Before him are Sebastiano Serlio, Claude Perrault, Vincenzo Scamozzi, Erich Mendelsohn, Philip Johnson, and Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli. After him are Giuliano da Sangallo, Louis Kahn, Richard Rogers, Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt, Lluís Domènech i Montaner, and Daniel Libeskind.

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Among people born in 1925, Robert Venturi ranks 65Before him are Milton Obote, Juan Alberto Schiaffino, Ieng Sary, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Bill Gates Sr., and Andrea Camilleri. After him are Oliver Smithies, John Tate, Wong Fei-hung, Jean Tinguely, Michael Halliday, and Joshua Lederberg. Among people deceased in 2018, Robert Venturi ranks 54Before him are Charles K. Kao, Bernard Lewis, Paul Allen, Jamal Khashoggi, Jin Yong, and Gudrun Burwitz. After him are R. Lee Ermey, Shoko Asahara, Osamu Shimomura, Stéphane Audran, Michael Halliday, and Reynaldo Bignone.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Robert Venturi ranks 1,213 out of 20,380Before him are Lionel Richie (1949), Shawn Michaels (1965), Ted Kennedy (1932), Robert Solow (1924), Carroll O'Connor (1924), and Marco Rubio (1971). After him are Linda Hunt (1945), Gerald Edelman (1929), Mark Milley (1958), Paul Lauterbur (1929), John Tate (1925), and Bette Midler (1945).

Among ARCHITECTS In United States

Among architects born in United States, Robert Venturi ranks 6Before him are Buckminster Fuller (1895), Louis Sullivan (1856), Frank Lloyd Wright (1867), Richard Meier (1934), and Philip Johnson (1906). After him are Minoru Yamasaki (1912), Peter Eisenman (1932), William Le Baron Jenney (1832), Charles Eames (1907), Nicholas Negroponte (1943), and Adrian Smith (1944).