One of his buildings features a coliseum-like main section surrounding an interior garden adjacent to two vast legislative halls, which are adjoined by a six-story glass walkway.
One of his buildings features a coliseum-like main section surrounding an interior garden adjacent to two vast legislative halls, which are adjoined by a six-story glass walkway. This architect of the Haute-Garonne Capitol Building in Toulouse included a semicircle "sailboat" window on his Lieb House, which had to be floated up the East River to escape New Jersey. Pine planks comprise almost all of his Brant-Johnson Ski House in (*) Vail, while his addition to Cass Gilbert's Allen Art Museum at Oberlin illustrate his thoughts on "contradiction" and "complexity. A staircase surrounds the central chimney above a large facade created by a sloping roof in a home built for this man's mother, Vanna. Denise Scott Brown helped this man's 1972 survey of a Western city, published as Learning from Las Vegas. For 10 points, identify this American architect linked with postmodernism through his quip "less is a bore."
One of his buildings features a coliseum-like main section surrounding an interior garden adjacent to two vast legislative halls, which are adjoined by a six-story glass walkway.
Robert Venturi