Pembroke North owes its striking good looks to the genius of architect Robert Venturi. According to the
Encyclopedia of World Biography, “Venturi spearheaded the “Post-Modern” revolt against the simplicity
and pure functionalism of modernist architecture. In both his buildings and his writings he championed an architecture rich in symbolism and history, complexity and contradiction.”

He and his firm have designed some of the most remarkable and renowned residences and public buildings
in the world including:

• The Vanna Venturi house in Chestnut Hill (for his mother)
• The Treehouse in the Philadelphia Children's Zoo
• An extension to the British National Gallery of Art's neoclassical building in London
• The Biology building at Princeton University
• A new Parliament House in Canberra, Australia
• The Laguna Gloria Art Museum in Austin, TX

Here, at Pembroke North, he has crafted a community that is, quite simply, extraordinary.