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10 things I learned on a pilgrimage to the iconic Vanna Venturi House Curbed
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
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Living in a Robert 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.
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Vanna Venturi House in Chestnut Hill achieves historic designation Curbed Philly
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
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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
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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.
The Full Tour The Vanna Venturi House (aka Mother’s House) Stately Kitsch
Robert Venturi, Vanna Venturi House, 1959-64, Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia (Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress; photo: Carol M. Highsmith) Rather than copy a specific style, he borrowed freely, juxtaposing, collaging, and reinterpreting forms from distinct periods and places. This was particularly true in the Vanna Venturi House.
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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
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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.
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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
The Full Tour The Vanna Venturi House (aka Mother’s House) Stately Kitsch
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.
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In 1962, Mrs. Vanna Venturi instructed her son, the young and promising architect, Robert Venturi, the project of a house in Chestnut Hill (Philadelphia).
The famous Vanna Venturi house in Chestnut Hill. Designed by Robert Venturi for his mother. r
However in the Vanna Venturi House Robert Venturi took the road less travelled and tested complexity and contradiction in architecture, going against the norm. Save this picture! Located in.
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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)
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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 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.
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The first sign that there is a new owner of the Vanna Venturi House, tucked into a deep lot in the Chestnut Hill neighborhood of Philadelphia, is the row of stuffed animals lining the window above the front vestibule.