Robert Venturi received his degrees in architecture and design from Princeton University
and also studied at the American Academy in Rome. After his return from Europe in
1954, Venturi began teaching at the University of Pennsylvania, first under Louis I.
Kahn, and later as a professor in his own right. In the late 1950s, Louis I. Kahn was
beginning his rise to national and international importance as an architect who, like
Venturi later, was seeking alternatives to mid-century Modernism.1
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