Vanna Venturi House
Architect: Robert Venturi
Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, PA
1962
Period: Post-Modernism - 'a revival of traditional architectural forms, ornament and language in an effort to more directly engage popular culture and in reaction to the abstraction and Minimalism of Modern Architecture' (Ideas of Order, 356)
In Venturi's house for his mother, historical references of the traditional 'home', such as the gable roof or picture window, are combined with minimalist abstractions of form and space typical to Modernist Architecture. This combination forms elementary design concepts of this Post-Modernist house.
jazzy_fact: the original paint color was a hue of green, a recent trip reveals the house has morphed into a color more suitable to its age, a faint grayish-blue.
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