Word: izenour
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Venturi's own buildings, designed in partnership with his wife Denise Scott Brown, John Rauch and Stephen Izenour, are more restrained in their use of Pop motifs than his polemics. As California's Charles Moore remarks, "Venturi has celebrated McDonald's Golden Arches, but I'd take bets he's never eaten a Big Mac." He has built no big commissions, so his intentions read best in his houses, most recently in a ski lodge at Aspen, Colo. It is a stew of historical references: "An Art Nouveau grandfather clock with arts-and-crafts overtones," says Venturi, and overlaid with...
...house lights go down, it can be forgotten as a separate entity. When the decisive moment comes, everything in the theatre is at the disposal of the actors. Thanks to the bountiful generosity of John L.Locb and the professional enterprise of Hugh A. Stubbins and George C. Izenour, Harvard has acquired a theatre that it can use, enjoy and be proud...