The famous Vanna Venturi house in Chestnut Hill. Designed by Robert Venturi for his mother. r

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Robert Venturi 1 of 14 Library Of Congress Starting with first sketches in 1959, Robert Venturi - then a young architect - designed a house for his mother Mrs Vanna Venturi in the Chestnut Hill neighbourhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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Vanna Venturi House It is a rare thing to live in a modern landmark, much less a groundbreaking postmodern masterwork by Robert Venturi, but that's what Agatha Hughes calls home. Hughes lives in the Vanna Venturi House in Chestnut Hill, which architect Robert Venturi designed for his aging mother in the early 1960s.

The famous Vanna Venturi house in Chestnut Hill. Designed by Robert Venturi for his mother. r

The Vanna Venturi House, one of the first prominent works of the postmodern architecture movement, is located in the neighborhood of Chestnut Hill in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was designed by architect Robert Venturi for his mother, Vanna Venturi, and constructed between 1962 and 1964. [1]

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The announcement this summer of the public sale of "Mother's House" - aka the Vanna Venturi House, the ur-post modern building, designed by her son, the architect Robert Venturi and completed in 1964 - prompted architect Cristina Guadalupe Galván, Denise Scott-Brown's project manager, to offer an insight into the personal story behind a Philadel.

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Vanna Venturi House Robert Venturi had some big ideas about architecture, and he found ways to express several of them in this rather small home. Designed for his elderly mother Vanna, Robert Venturi used the house as a canvas to demonstrate some of the "complexities and contradictions" in modern architecture. Watch the Segment

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Robert Venturi, Vanna Venturi House, 1959-64, Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia (Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress; photo: Carol M. Highsmith) Rather than copy a specific style, he borrowed freely, juxtaposing, collaging, and reinterpreting forms from distinct periods and places. This was particularly true in the Vanna Venturi House.

Vanna Venturi House in Chestnut Hill achieves historic designation Curbed Philly

In 1962, Mrs. Vanna Venturi instructed her son, the young and promising architect, Robert Venturi, the project of a house in Chestnut Hill (Philadelphia).

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Vanna Venturi House: Chestnut Hill, Pennsylvania (1964) Getty Images. Originally designed for Venturi's mother, this home, filled with contradictions including a functionless arch, was one of the first postmodern designs, and one of the rare residential projects to win the 25-Year Award from the American Institute of Architects.

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Vanna Venturi House, 8330 Millman Street, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA Historic American Buildings Survey, creator Venturi, Vanna Venturi, Robert Charles, Jr Documentation compiled after 1933 - facades - 1 1/2 stories - concrete block buildings - stucco - Post Modern - central chimneys - stairways - lunettes

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Vanna Venturi House Technical Information Architects: Robert Venturi & John Rauch Location: Chestnut Hill neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA Topics: Post-Modernism, Symbolism in Architecture Area: 184.5 m 2 | 1,986 ft 2 Project Year: 1962 - 1964

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Yet throughout the building the adept juxtaposition of big and little elements and the intentional distortion of symmetry establish a richness of meaning and perceptual ambiguity that have made the *Vanna Venturi House*—built in northwestern Philadelphia between 1962 and 1964—one of the most studied and referenced houses of the second half of th.

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Vanna Venturi House Robert Venturi View all images (12) Project Details Project Name Vanna Venturi House Location Philadelphia , PA Project Types Single Family Year Completed 1964 Awards 1989 AIA Twenty-Five Year Award

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However in the Vanna Venturi House Robert Venturi took the road less travelled and tested complexity and contradiction in architecture, going against the norm. Save this picture! Located in.

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On Thursday, November 10, the Vanna Venturi House in Chestnut Hill, Pennsylvania, was added to the Philadelphia Register of Historic Places, providing the 54-year-old house—which has been.

Design Moment Vanna Venturi house, 1964 The Irish Times

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The Vanna Venturi House in Chestnut Hill, Pennsylvania, lovingly known as the "Mother's House," was arguably Robert Venturi's quintessential architectural statement. It was planned and built between 1959 and 1964, a wide time span that is telling of the exceedingly large amount of thought and intellectual work that went into its realization