plexity and Contradiction in Architecture and Learning from Las Vegas, Venturi proposed theories and concepts of contemporary architecture that have become seminal works on postmodern architecture. Born in Philadelphia in 1925, Venturi began his work under Eero Saarinen and Louis Kahn, eventually founding his own form with partner John Rausch. Eventually Venturi married Denise Scott Brown, an artist and architect who joined his firm. Venturi revolted against what he found to be the banal design of postwar modern architecture. One of his first early works of distinction if Guild House in Philadelphia, with its distinct billboard-like entrance sign. His later works were characterized by historicism and more subdued. In 199
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