Robert Venturi, the American architect who designed the Seattle Art Museum and whose buildings and best-selling books helped inspire the movement known as postmodernism, in which historic elements ...

When Seattle Art Museum ... But in order to attract gifts of art, you need room to display them. In 1999, only eight years after opening the Venturi building, the museum’s board voted ...

Robert Venturi, an iconoclastic architect ... often had giant letters carved into his facades, including at the Seattle Art Museum. He used colors, patterns and textures in unexpected ways and ...

Robert Venturi was an iconoclastic architect often ... had giant letters carved into his facades, including at the Seattle Art Museum (Alamy) As an unexpected encore to Complexity and ...

American architect Robert Venturi has passed away ... Terracotta tiles wrap around the bottom of the curved limestone Seattle Art Museum in an undulating pattern, like a signature of Venturi's ...

Reporting from PhiladelphiaReporting from Philadelphia — Architect Robert Venturi ... his most prominent works include the Seattle Art Museum, completed in 1991, which has been incorporated ...

PHILADELPHIA — Architect Robert ... Venturi told the AP. “There's not just an elite culture. There is elite and folk cultures.” Elsewhere, his most prominent works include the Seattle Art ...

Architect Robert Charles Venturi Jr. died ... in 1972—another milestone in architectural theory. Venturi and Scott Brown also worked together on such landmark projects as the Allen Memorial Art Museum ...