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'FDR memorial competition' about.


Architects: Robert Venturi, John Rauch, George Patton and Nicholas Gianopulos
Design date: 1960
Situation: Washington, D.C.


Robert Venturi was born in Philadelphia in 1925 and studied architecture at Princeton University. From 1950 to 1958 worked for O. Stonorov, Eero Saarinen and L.I.Kahn. Has been fellow of the American Academy in Rome and has tought at Pennsylvania an Yale Universities. He has writed "Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture" (1966) and with Denise Scott Brown and Steven Izenour "Learning from Las Vegas" (1972).


As a professional directs the architecture office Venturi, Rauch & Scott Brown, Architects and Planners, in Philadelphia. Some of the more important works are the Guild House (1962), the National College Hall Fame (1967), the Yale Mathematics Building (1969), the Molecular Biology Building in Princeton University (1983-1985) and the Ponte Dell'Academia in Venice (1985).







 
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