The Vanna Venturi House is a house in the Chestnut Hill neighborhood of Philadelphia, designed by the architect Robert Venturi for his mother and completed in 1964. Its street facade presents a broken, non-structural pediment and an asymmetrical arrangement of windows and applied ornament, deliberately contradicting the plain geometric volumes and unornamented surfaces that modernist houses of the period favored. Venturi treated the house as a built demonstration of the ideas he set out in his book Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture, using historical reference, ambiguity and apparent inconsistency rather than a single unifying modernist logic. It is widely regarded as one of the first works of postmodern architecture.
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Building TypeSourced to the subject's own account LocationSourced to the subject's own accountChestnut Hill, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1 Completed Year Height (m)Sourced to the subject's own account Classification
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WikipediaLead paragraph, first sentence
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.
Lead paragraph, second sentence
It was designed by architect Robert Venturi for his mother, Vanna Venturi, and built between 1962 and 1964.
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It was designed by architect Robert Venturi for his mother, Vanna Venturi, and built between 1962 and 1964.
Lead paragraph, third sentence, height clause
The five-room house stands only about 30 feet (9 m) tall, but has a monumental front facade, an effect achieved by intentionally manipulating the architectural elements that indicate a building's scale.
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The Vanna Venturi House is a house in the Chestnut Hill neighborhood of Philadelphia, designed by the architect Robert Venturi for his mother and completed in 1964. Its street facade presents a broken, non-structural pediment and an asymmetrical arrangement of windows and applied ornament, deliberately contradicting the plain geometric volumes and unornamented surfaces that modernist houses of the period favored. Venturi treated the house as a built demonstration of the ideas he set out in his book Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture, using historical reference, ambiguity and apparent inconsistency rather than a single unifying modernist logic. It is widely regarded as one of the first works of postmodern architecture.
In Style: Postmodern Architecture, Lead paragraph, first sentence, style clause
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.
View the Source 2. Wikidata: Vanna Venturi House
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