10 things I learned on a pilgrimage to the iconic Vanna Venturi House Curbed

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Vanna Venturi House - A A + A Thomas Hughes House 1960-1963, Robert Venturi. 8330 Millman St. (University of Pennsylvania, Architectural Archives) (University of Pennsylvania, Architectural Archives) (University of Pennsylvania, Architectural Archives) (University of Pennsylvania, Architectural Archives)

The Full Tour The Vanna Venturi House (aka Mother’s House) Stately Kitsch

Vanna Venturi House Robert Venturi View all images (12) Project Details Project Name Vanna Venturi House Location Philadelphia , PA Project Types Single Family Year Completed 1964 Awards 1989 AIA Twenty-Five Year Award

The Vanna Venturi house an official historic place News Archinect

The Vanna Venturi House, referred to by the architect as "my mother's house", took more than six years to design and marked the beginning of his break with the Modernist movement.

Vanna Venturi House Listed for 1.75 Million Architect Magazine

Vanna Venturi House Robert Venturi had some big ideas about architecture, and he found ways to express several of them in this rather small home. Designed for his elderly mother Vanna, Robert Venturi used the house as a canvas to demonstrate some of the "complexities and contradictions" in modern architecture. Watch the Segment

10 things I learned on a pilgrimage to the iconic Vanna Venturi House Curbed

On Thursday, November 10, the Vanna Venturi House in Chestnut Hill, Pennsylvania, was added to the Philadelphia Register of Historic Places, providing the 54-year-old house—which has been.

Caring for the Vanna Venturi House like it's family WHYY

Vanna Venturi House Technical Information Architects: Robert Venturi & John Rauch Location: Chestnut Hill neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA Topics: Post-Modernism, Symbolism in Architecture Area: 184.5 m 2 | 1,986 ft 2 Project Year: 1962 - 1964

Caring for the Vanna Venturi House like it's family WHYY

Vanna Venturi House It is a rare thing to live in a modern landmark, much less a groundbreaking postmodern masterwork by Robert Venturi, but that's what Agatha Hughes calls home. Hughes lives in the Vanna Venturi House in Chestnut Hill, which architect Robert Venturi designed for his aging mother in the early 1960s.

The Full Tour The Vanna Venturi House (aka Mother’s House) Stately Kitsch

The announcement this summer of the public sale of "Mother's House" - aka the Vanna Venturi House, the ur-post modern building, designed by her son, the architect Robert Venturi and completed in 1964 - prompted architect Cristina Guadalupe Galván, Denise Scott-Brown's project manager, to offer an insight into the personal story behind a Philadel.

Vanna Venturi House SAH ARCHIPEDIA

In 1962, Mrs. Vanna Venturi instructed her son, the young and promising architect, Robert Venturi, the project of a house in Chestnut Hill (Philadelphia).

Vanna Venturi House Listed for 1.75 Million Architect Magazine

Yet throughout the building the adept juxtaposition of big and little elements and the intentional distortion of symmetry establish a richness of meaning and perceptual ambiguity that have made the *Vanna Venturi House*—built in northwestern Philadelphia between 1962 and 1964—one of the most studied and referenced houses of the second half of th.

Vanna Venturi House SAH ARCHIPEDIA

Robert Venturi 1 of 14 Library Of Congress Starting with first sketches in 1959, Robert Venturi - then a young architect - designed a house for his mother Mrs Vanna Venturi in the Chestnut Hill neighbourhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Vanna Venturi House Ten Buildings that Changed America WTTW Chicago

The Vanna Venturi House in Chestnut Hill, Pennsylvania, lovingly known as the "Mother's House," was arguably Robert Venturi's quintessential architectural statement. It was planned and built between 1959 and 1964, a wide time span that is telling of the exceedingly large amount of thought and intellectual work that went into its realization

Vanna Venturi House in Chestnut Hill achieves historic designation Curbed Philly

Vanna Venturi House, 8330 Millman Street, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA Historic American Buildings Survey, creator Venturi, Vanna Venturi, Robert Charles, Jr Documentation compiled after 1933 - facades - 1 1/2 stories - concrete block buildings - stucco - Post Modern - central chimneys - stairways - lunettes

Caring for the Vanna Venturi House like it's family WHYY

Vanna Venturi House: Chestnut Hill, Pennsylvania (1964) Getty Images. Originally designed for Venturi's mother, this home, filled with contradictions including a functionless arch, was one of the first postmodern designs, and one of the rare residential projects to win the 25-Year Award from the American Institute of Architects.

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Vanna Venturi's house is one of the first works by the American architect Robert Venturi, with whom he quickly gained international recognition. In 1989 the house was awarded the Twenty-five Year Award. It was built by Vanna Venturi, the author's mother, who commissioned the project in 1962. The house is located in Chestnut Hill, on the.

Design Moment Vanna Venturi house, 1964 The Irish Times

The Vanna Venturi House, one of the first prominent works of the postmodern architecture movement, is located in the neighborhood of Chestnut Hill in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was designed by architect Robert Venturi for his mother, Vanna Venturi, and constructed between 1962 and 1964. [1]