Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown

Quick Facts American architects Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown proposed alternatives to the functionalist mainstream of 20th-century American architectural design. Their design partnership was at the vanguard of the eclectic movement known as postmodernism. Venturi studied at the Princeton University School of Architecture in New Jersey, where he received a B.A. in 1947 and an M.F.A. in 1950. Between 1950 and 1958 he worked as a designer for the architectural firms of Oscar Stonorov,...