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Robert Charles Venturi Jr. (June 25, 1925 – September 18, 2018) was an American architect, founding principal of the firm Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates. Together with his wife and partner, Denise Scott Brown , he helped shape the way that architects, planners and students experience and think about architecture and the built environment.
When Robert Venturi was named as winner of the 1991 Pritzker Architecture Prize, [16] Scott Brown did not attend the award ceremony in protest. [17] The prize organization, the Hyatt Foundation, stated that, in 1991, it honored only individual architects, a practice that changed in 2001 with the selection of Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron. [17]
The newest designations are for the Sainsbury Wing at the National Gallery, the only work in Britain by Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown, [13] [14] which was listed in May 2018; and The New House at Wadhurst Park in Sussex, a private house by John Outram for members of the Rausing family, which was listed in July 2020. [15]
The most important addition to the building in the late 20th century was the Sainsbury Wing, designed by the postmodernist architects Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown to house the collection of Renaissance paintings and built in 1991.
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The Sainsbury Wing of the National Gallery in London, designed by Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown, is opened. Norwegian Glacier Museum in Fjærland, designed by Sverre Fehn, is built. Extended Brentwood Cathedral in England, designed by Quinlan Terry, is dedicated.
Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown and Associates: 1988–1991: 9 May 2018 ... National Gallery Sainsbury Wing. More images. Edith Cavell Memorial: St Martin's Place WC2:
In the 1980s, British grocery store magnate Lord John Sainsbury, Baron of Preston Candover, spent tens of millions funding a new wing of London’s National Gallery. He did not like one aspect of ...