Architect Robert Venturi

Robert Venturi

Living place: Philadelphia

Birthday: 25-6-1925 (99 years old)

Population of US 1925: 115,829,000

Global rank: #65334

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Who is Architect Robert Venturi?
The architect who designed Freedom Plaza in Washington, DC said that: "Less is the barrel', a take-off on Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's 'Less is more'", a statement he vehemently disagrees with.
He received the Pritzker Prize in 1991 and asked his wife and associate, Denise Scott Brown, to be included with him, but the Pritzker Prize jury ultimately refused.
 
 

Young / Before famous

He graduated summa cum laude from Princeton University in 1947 and earned his M. F.A. himself in 1950. He spent two years in Europe after winning the American Academy at the Rome Fellowship of Rome in 1954.

Family life info

He married Brown in 1967; She became a member of his company in 1969, holding the position of partner in charge of planning. His parents made him like a Quaker.

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Who is Boy (girl) friend/ wife (husband)/ darling Architect Robert Venturi?
He worked for architect Eero Saarinen in 1951.

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When was Architect Robert Venturi born?
Robert Venturi birthday 25-6-1925 (at the age of 99).
Where is Architect Robert Venturi's birth place, what is Zodiac/Chinese Zodiac?
Robert Venturi was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania- United States. is a Architect, whose Zodiac is Cancer, and who Chinese Zodiac is The Ox. Robert Venturi's global rank is 65334 and whose rank is 76 in list of famous Architect. Population of US in 1925 is about 115,829,000 persons.
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Events in 1925 and 25-6

Events in US in the birth year of Robert Venturi

  • Nellie Tayloe Ross takes office as governor of Wyoming (Jan. 5). She is the first woman governor in U.S. history.
  • Tennessee schoolteacher John T. Scopes is arrested (May 5) for teaching the theory of evolution, forbidden by state law.
  • Worst tornado in U.S. history hit Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana: 689 deaths.
  • Al Capone takes over the Chicago bootlegging racket.

Birthday Robert Venturi (25-6) in history

  • Day 25-6 year 1788: Virginia became the 10th state in the Union.
  • Day 25-6 year 1876: Lt. Col. George A. Custer and all his men were killed by Sioux and Cheyanne Indians at the Battle of Little Bighorn in Montana.
  • Day 25-6 year 1950: Communist North Korean troops invaded South Korea, beginning the Korean War.
  • Day 25-6 year 1951: The first commercial color TV program was transmitted by CBS from New York to Baltimore, Philadelphia, Boston, and Washington, DC.
  • Day 25-6 year 1991: Croatia and Slovenia proclaimed their independence from Yugoslavia, beginning the Yugoslavian civil war.
  • Day 25-6 year 1997: Oceanographer Jacques Cousteau died.
  • Day 25-6 year 2009: Michael Jackson, lifelong musician, pop singer, and superstar, dies at age 50.
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