Architects
Robert Venturi & Denise Scott Brown

Per my list of “25 architects you should know” contained within last week’s post of Charles & Ray Eames, this week we look at Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown. Venturi with his wife and partner Scott Brown founded Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates. You may not find some of their designs striking and yet they are considered major architectural figures of the twentieth century. Perhaps harder do see in photos is that they influenced how those involved with architecture shifted their way of thinking. In my mind the more recent work is most interesting.


Guild House
1964




Fire Station Number 4
1968




Trubeck and Wislocki Houses
1971




Brant House
1972




Dixwell Fire Station
1974




Allen Memorial Art Museum
1976




Basco Showroom
1976




Franklin Court
1976




Best Products Catalogue Showroom
1978




Freedom Plaza
1980




Gordon Wu Hall
1983




Lewis Thomas Laboratory
1986




Gordon and Virginia MacDonald Medical Research Laboratories
1991




Sainsbury Wing National Gallery
1991




Seatle Art Museum
1991




Children’s Museum
1992




Charles P Stevenson Jr Bard College
1994




Museum of Contemporary Art
1996




Trabant Student Centre
University of Delaware
1996




Gonda Neurosciences and Genetics Research Centre
1998




Frist Campus Centre
Princeton University
2001




Baker Memorial Library
Dartmouth College
2002




Dumbarton Oaks Library
Harvard University
2005




Undergraduate Science Building
University of Michigan
2005




Biomedical Biological Sciences Research Building
University of Kentucky
2005




Vanna Venturi House
2005




Congregation Beth El Synagogue
2007




Epicospal Academy Chapel
2008