As a response to modern architecture, Robert Venturi has crafted a unique mannerist style that combines complex forms and symbolism to re-humanize the environments in which we live and work. This new language for contemporary architecture was articulated in the seminal books, Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture (with Denise Scott Brown) and Learning from Las Vegas (with Denise Scott Brown and Steven Izenour). Venturi’s ideas have been realized around the world -- from the ground-breaking Vanna Venturi House in Chestnut Hill to the Sainsbury Wing of London’s National Gallery, from the Mielparque Nikko Kirifuri Hotel and Spa in Japan to labs, libraries and campus centers at the University of Pennsylvania, Harvard, Yale and his alma mater Princeton.

His Vanna Venturi House was honored by the United States Post Office with a commemorative stamp in 2005 as part of its Masterworks of Modern American Architecture series. He and his partner Denise Scott Brown have been awarded the National Medal of the Arts, authorized by Congress to recognize those "who, in the President’s judgment, are deserving of special recognition by reason of their outstanding contributions to the excellence, growth, support and availability of the arts in the United States." Venturi was also honored with the Pritzker Architecture Prize for having "expanded and redefined the limits of the art of architecture in this century, as perhaps no other has through his theories and built works."

Across America and around the world, Robert Venturi and his team strive to enrich our lives and communities by understanding the connections between the spaces we inhabit and the people we are.