- He taught at the University of Pennsylvania and Yale in the 1950s and 1960s. During those years, he supplemented his income from the family's produce business, which he managed as president until 1973.
- He was an influential architect considered by many to be the "father of postmodernism".
- His father ran a wholesale fruit business, and his mother was a socialist and feminist. Venturi was raised as a Quaker, and was a conscientious objector during WWII. He received a master's degree from Princeton's architecture school in 1950, and joined the architectural firm of Eero Saarinen. He won a fellowship and moved to Rome, where he spent two years studying architecture and urban design.
- He received the Pritzker Architecture Prize in 1991.
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