2018.09.24 11:36
A Fountain and Vanna Venturi House; 1964 with Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown
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and regarding the "egg"
2012.07.24 17:21
The Philadelphia School, deterritorialized
...And after I took a shower, I thought about Scott Brown’s first association with Venturi and Rauch, the competition for a Monumental Fountain on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway (1964).
Here we have an enormous egg, cracked open by a very long diagonal(!) axis with a giant jet-stream gushing inside.
Yesterday was Venturi and Scott Brown’s 45th wedding anniversary.
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2018.09.24 12:17
A Fountain and Vanna Venturi House; 1964 with Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown
and regarding Robert Venturi's actual "first take"
Headquarters for the North Penn Visiting Nurses' Association
"I love this, my first built building..."
Robert Venturi, "Some agonizing thoughts about maintenance and preservation concerning humble buildings of the recent past" (1993).
"I suppose the first Modern architect to use the decorative moulding and traditional symbol (such as the doorway arch) in an aggressive way was Robert Venturi. His Headquarters Building for Nurses and Dentists, 1960[-63], has decorative moulding placed as exaggerated eyebrows over the lower windows, and a paper-thin arch bisected by diagonal struts which shout out 'public entrance'. All sorts of ideas which were to have later influence are present in this building, so it could be called quite appropriately the first anti-monument of Post-Modernism."
Charles Jencks, The Language of Post-Modernism (1977), p. 87.
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