Robert Venturi is an award-winning architect and an influential
writer, teacher, artist, and designer. His work includes includes
the Sainsbury Wing of London's National Galler; renovation of the
Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego; dozens of major academic
projects; and the groundbreaking Vanna Venturi House.
Denise Scott Brown is an architect, writer, and planner. She and
Robert Venturi are founding principals of the influential
architectural firm Venturi, Scott Brown, and Associates (VSBA),
whose work and ideas have influenced generations of architects and
planners.
Steven Izenour (1940-2001) was coauthor of Learning from Las Vegas
(MIT Press, 1977) and a principal in the Philadelphia firm Venturi,
Scott Brown and Associates, Inc (VSBA). His most noted projects at
VSBA include Philadelphia's Basco showroom, the George D. Widener
Memorial Treehouse at the Philadelphia Zoo, the Camden Children's
Garden, and the house he designed for his parents in Stony Creek,
Connecticut.
...a brilliant document of the times...a work which uses history
knowledgeably, skillfully, and creatively: a rarity.—Journal of the
Society of Architectural Historians
...professionally informed, competitively astute, and perversely
brilliant...—The Yale Review
...these studies are brilliant...the kind of art history and theory
that is rarely produced.—Ada Louis Huxtable, The New York Times
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