Vanna Venturi House Listed for 1.75 Million Architect Magazine
Vanna Venturi's house is one of the first works by the American architect Robert Venturi, with whom he quickly gained international recognition. In 1989 the house was awarded the Twenty-five Year Award. It was built by Vanna Venturi, the author's mother, who commissioned the project in 1962. The house is located in Chestnut Hill, on the.
/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/65079735/Vanna_Venturi_House.0.jpg)
Living in a Robert Venturi house Curbed
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.
The Vanna Venturi house an official historic place News Archinect
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
Vanna Venturi House Ten Buildings that Changed America WTTW Chicago
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
/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/51891205/Front_10___2006__Matt_Wargo__w_layers.0.jpeg)
10 things I learned on a pilgrimage to the iconic Vanna Venturi House Curbed
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.
Caring for the Vanna Venturi House like it's family WHYY
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
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)
Vanna Venturi House SAH ARCHIPEDIA
The announcement this summer of the public sale of "Mother's House" - aka the Vanna Venturi House, the ur-post modern building, designed by her son, the architect Robert Venturi and completed in 1964 - prompted architect Cristina Guadalupe Galván, Denise Scott-Brown's project manager, to offer an insight into the personal story behind a Philadel.
The famous Vanna Venturi house in Chestnut Hill. Designed by Robert Venturi for his mother. r
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.
Vanna Venturi House SAH ARCHIPEDIA
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
Caring for the Vanna Venturi House like it's family WHYY
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.
Caring for the Vanna Venturi House like it's family WHYY
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
/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/51784427/20871793_big.0.jpg)
Vanna Venturi House in Chestnut Hill achieves historic designation Curbed Philly
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.
The Full Tour The Vanna Venturi House (aka Mother’s House) Stately Kitsch
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.
AD Classics Vanna Venturi House / Robert Venturi ArchDaily
Share Image 1 of 11 from gallery of AD Classics: Vanna Venturi House / Robert Venturi. Photograph by Maria Buszek
The Full Tour The Vanna Venturi House (aka Mother’s House) Stately Kitsch
In 1962, Mrs. Vanna Venturi instructed her son, the young and promising architect, Robert Venturi, the project of a house in Chestnut Hill (Philadelphia).