Word: venturi
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...From old photographs," Venturi said, "we're reproducing old lights from the dining hall, but inserting new [bulbs]. They give the greater light you need in the late 20th century...
...challenge for Robert Venturi of the Philadelphia architectural firm Venturi, Scott, Brown and Associates was to modify venerable Memorial Hall's design to perform these duties without damaging its historic character...
...Restoration is bringing the building back to its original condition," Venturi said. "And at the same time there is renovation because the building has to adapt to modified uses...
Even the lights will be reminiscent of an older age, according to Venturi...
Botta, 51, deserves all praise for coming up with a design that isn't disfigured by post-Modernist hokiness, as is the 1991 Seattle Art Museum, designed by Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown. No smirking little "references" to grand architecture done in pasteboard; no one-shot ironies or graphic-design quips. Botta's brick masses occupy their site with authority and dignity, and their striations save the windowless walls from dullness. It might have looked like an art bunker, but Botta avoided this by splitting the mass symmetrically with a protruding skylight: a big cylinder sliced...