Vanna Venturi House, Philadelphia (Pennsylvania), 1962-1964

If he had persevered in his longevity, Robert Venturi would have turned a hundred in 2025, and the centenary would perhaps have been observed with the unsettling kind of devotion that legends bent on continuing to live beyond their time stir up. But Venturi died in 2018, and the manner in which we celebrate it ought to have less to do with sentimental admiration for a grandee than with serene assessment of ideas...[+]