Vanna Venturi's House (Mother's House) by Robert Venturi
Robert Charles Venturi, Jr. was born in June 25, 1925 in Philadelphia is an award-winning American architect and founding principal of the firm Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates. Robert Venturi and his wife and partner, Denise Scott Brown, are regarded among the most influential architects of the twentieth century, both through their architecture and planning, and theoretical writings and teaching. Venturi was awarded the Pritzker Prize in Architecture in 1991. He is also known for coining the maxim "Less is a bore" as antidote to Mies van der Rohe's famous modernist dictum "Less is more". Venturi lives in Philadelphia with Denise Scott Brown. They have a son, James Venturi.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Venturi)
An icon of post-modernism, created for the architect's mother, and featured in Venturi's architectural polemic "Complexity and Contradiction".
(http://www.greatbuildings.com/buildings/Vanna_Venturi_House.html)
