Early in his career he worked in the office of Eero Saarinen and was heavily influenced by Alvar Alto.
Early in his career he worked in the office of Eero Saarinen and was heavily influenced by Alvar Alto. In one writing he asks, "Is not Main Street almost all right," arguing for the messy vitality of the built environment in his book, Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture.  He designed a number of buildings on his Alma Mater's campus including Gordon Wu Hall, and the Lewis Thomas Laboratory located at Princeton University. Also discussing symbolic forms in his study of the Vegas strip, Learning from Las Vegas, this architect's other major works include the expansion of the Seattle Art Museum in 1991 and the Sainsbury Wing of the National Gallery in London. Winner of the 1991 Pritzker Prize, for 10 points, name this American Born architect famous for his satirical riposte of Mies van der Rohe, when he stated, "Less is a bore."
Early in his career he worked in the office of Eero Saarinen and was heavily influenced by Alvar Alto.
Robert Venturi