It was very unusual to employ prettiness as part of a building.

Venturi's architecture has had world-wide influence beginning in the 1967s with the dissemination of the broken-gable roof of the Vanna Venturi House and the segmentally arched window and interrupted string courses of Guild House. Selected works

Vanna Venturi House; Philadelphia (1964) won the AIA Twenty-five Year Award and was recognized as a "Masterwork of Modern American Architecture" by the United States Postal Service in May 2005. A.

Venturi lives in Philadelphia with Denise Scott Brown. Together with his wife and partner Denise Scott Brown he helped to shape the way that architects planners and students experience and think about architecture and the American built environment. Venturi was awarded the Pritzker Prize in Architecture in 1991.