Robert Venturi: Architecture's Improper Hero Part 1

[@mariaceciliatv]

Excelente video gracias

[@MC-ym3lz]

Venturi is officially my fav old person. He's the lost grandpa that I never had.

[@tamararebekalukic3584]

Big like for this video. Taught me more then my professor :)

[@JohnThornton]

+Tamara Rebeka Lukic Thanks so much Tamara! When I made this, it was before youtube allowed longer movies. There is a shorter "Part 2" in case you are interested! kzbin.info/www/bejne/lXzNfmSsZdZ8paM

[@tamararebekalukic3584]

+John Thornton hi John :) i watched the part 2 straight away. After watching your videos I just grew in appreciation of Venturi. He seems like a really good and down to earth guy unlike most architects :)

[@JohnThornton]

+Tamara Rebeka Lukic He was very very likable. I loved his advice to not think you have to do the "proper" thing. I enjoyed meeting him immensely!

[@synon9m]

of course. like a lot of things in life, if they (the professors, the establishment) know the answer, they keep it a secret.

[@jamesuardo]

I know little if anything about architecture, but this movie really made me think about the impact it has on our day to day lives. What a great guy Mr. Venturi is. (my cell phone's spell checker keeps trying to correct his name to Mr. Venturing, which is kind of cool.) Great movie, now on to part 2.

[@rr7firefly]

For me "Complexity and Contradiction" was Venturi's magnus opus. It was a groundbreaking book. I have to say that I left the Venturi bus when I looked at "Learning from Las Vegas." It seemed too much a validation of everything that I deplore about PostModernism. // I actually met Mister Venturi in San Antonio when he was at my first major exhibition of conceptual architecture drawings.

[@kevindsouza9393]

RIP Robert Venturi , you taught me a lot. And like the children in the beginning of the video "Learning from Las Vegas oh ya ! That's our favorite Book"

[@joannakoter9159]

I dang love this video

[@thomastieffenbacherdocsava1549]

Thanks for the edification. Context verses decoration. HMMMMMN

[@JC-wr9fx]

Hello, I am curious as to why some of your reference textbooks in this video are written in Korean?

[@be5v]

what interview was it that you were quoting from at 8:48? would be helpful to me, thanks

[@mustafamokhtar2454]

beverlea low kzbin.info/www/bejne/q2W1e5aEfbyobbs

[@ISCDesignArchitect]

I loved Sandboxes too!

[@ericrutgrink]

well done - thoroughly enjoyed that and got some great notes:)

[@jasminejahani4154]

Love this video!

[@nrm55]

Anyone recognize the beautiful aria at the end of the video? Is it Bach?

[@theamatimasblink6594]

In the Book AMATIMAS I AM TIME....Venturi made the grade...Father of Post Modernism is a Great Laugh..... I love Venturi for the House for His mother... studied..in my formal Achitecture Education.....I worked for Las Vegas Corp. Archects and the Book " learn from Las Vegas" Did inpact the Architectural World not only in Las Vegas ,yet all over the country with " sign pollution".in the Book... Besides His low time firm..in the shadows of I M PEI,Frank Loyd Wrght,Perria,Ceasar Pelli,SOM,or Philip Johnson,.....Sad his Clot was that big ,yet works could shape a world....Post Modern Father..No..Great Architect...He had a Gift ....... Thank to make it Happen.....No Doubt effected the Architectural World of what we are Look and Living in...a better place. Richard Herbert

[@GabooshBD]

yo that dude at 5:37 has some sick flow

[@georgewu5]

When I was in S.O.M. design department from 1969 to 1972, after I was in it's production department two years prior to that,. All the young "designers" were doing nothing all day but gathered together every time when the big boss Gordon Bunshaft was not around, especially every Friday morning when Bunshaft had to take off early to miss the L.I.E. traffic, they talked about how wonderful Venturi was all day long ! Because the economy was having a 1972 recession soon. But after several rounds of depression and recession in 1982 ,1989, 1997, where the hell is Venturi ?! I was so disappointted with his Seatlle Museum when I visited there in 1992. I thought it was one of the ugliest buildings I have ever been, compared to the feeling I got when I visited The Falling Water in 1987 ! So, "do it whatever interests you", quoted by venture was just a lot of Bu.. ! George Wu, A.I.A. 2014-2-20

[@DavidJGillCA]

Please...you can't compare Fallingwater to something like Venturi's Seattle museum. A building like that museum has a thousand constraints that shape it...site, budget, politics, a large number of personalities poking at it, public attitudes, all manner of regulatory requirements. Fallingwater is pure, limited only by his will. He defined the site and all other constraints as he chose...Really, there were no constraints other than gravity and he tried to redefine that as well. I cannot follow your remarks on Beethoven, the 60's, Corbu for a thousand years, bombs, etc. Was this in another language, then given Google Translator treatment?

[@jamma]

its about communication... if it took so long for tha guy to understand it.... i guess "it's more noise than signal" Interesting!

[@georgewu5]

To me, Venturi is just like a rock star in addition to the great Beethoven ! It did not even take long, since 1960's to 2014,how many years ? 54 years or less, so to prove that Venturi is already gone as the great Corbusier keeps on going on strong for another 1,000 years ! If the people on earth did not throw nuclear bombs to each other ! George Wu, A.I.A. 2014-2-20

[@barrywainwright3391]

RIP. You lived to be a ripe old age of 93. Thanks for your contributions to society. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Venturi

[@virtually_dani666]

South Africans are English?! I think a lot of people would disagree with that statement. If anything they were once British.

[@hartleyjr]

8 minutes 25. South Africa was part of England....

[@PaulaAndBarros]

7 rules of the Corbusier? Keeping it white? wtf ... haha

[@christopherzalejski8066]

7 rules? 5 points, maybe. Ronchamp has nothing to do with the five points. If anything, it's highly contextual. Sorry Mr. Thornton, you and your colleagues are embarrassing yourselves.

[@kenm4479]

Post modernism : the departure from common sense

[@dlwatib]

Maybe you need to be more of a curmudgeon than Robert Venturi to be a truly great architect. Frank Gehry does better work than Robert Venturi. Robert says more interesting things about what architecture should be, but Frank Gehry builds more interesting buildings. If I took seriously what Frank Gehry says, I would not expect to like his architecture at all. He trivializes it in what he says about it. But nobody is ever going to point to Venturi's Allen Art Museum Addition 100 years from now and say that that is great architecture, or at least I hope not! But Gehry's Bilbao Guggenheim Museum will most likely stand the test of time. Venturi's mind is too pedestrian. His architecture trivializes what he says about architecture.

[@DennisMHenderson]

"Venturi" made trash on-purpose