Monday's Trivia, designers

Re: Monday's Trivia, designers

John Veerkamp

is the first pic from a Danish designer?

No, American through and through.

Gary Smyth

Undergrad in Ohio, Grad in Massachusetts, important work in New Jersey, Portland, Washington, DC, others in Japan, Korea, Netherlands, Saudi Arabia, Belgium and others.

Re: No, American through and through.

Gary Camp, Bend, Oregon

Portland work a shopping center?

Re: No,

Gary Smyth

15-story public office building located at 1120 SW 5th Avenue in downtown Portland, Oregon, United States. Opened in 1982 I believe. Colors reminiscent of the photo.

Re: No,

Gary Camp, Bend, Oregon

We must be talking about Portlandia's sculptor, Ray. It is my favorite sculpture.

Re: Monday's answer

Gary Smyth

Michael Graves

(born July 9, 1934, Indianapolis, Ind., U.S.) U.S. architect and designer. He studied at Harvard University and in 1962 began a long teaching career at Princeton University while designing private houses in the abstract and austere style of orthodox Modernism. In the late 1970s he rejected Modernist expression and began seeking a larger, postmodernist vocabulary. The hulking masses of the Portland Building in Portland, Ore. (1980), and the Humana Building in Louisville, Ky. (1982), display his highly personal, Cubist rendering of such Classical elements as colonnades and loggias. Though considered somewhat awkward, these and his later buildings (e.g., Indianapolis Art Center, 1996) have been acclaimed for their ironic interpretation of traditional forms. Among his later projects were the restoration of the Washington Monument (2000) and the creation of a line of household items, including kitchenware and furniture, for the discount retailer Target.

Robert Venturi

(born June 25, 1925, Philadelphia, Pa., U.S.) U.S. architect. He studied at Princeton University and in Rome at the American Academy. After working with Eero Saarinen and Louis Kahn, he formed a partnership with his wife, Denise Scott Brown, and John Rauch. His philosophy, set forth in the influential books Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture (1966) and Learning from Las Vegas (1972), called for openness to the multiple influences of historical tradition, ordinary commercial architecture, and Pop art. He had such a profound impact on younger architects who were beginning to find similar constraints and limitations in the Modernist architectural aesthetic, that he became the unofficial dean of the postmodern movement in architecture. His buildings often exhibit ironic humour. Important commissions include buildings for Princeton and the University of Pennsylvania, the Seattle Art Museum (1985 � 91), and the Sainsbury Wing of London's National Gallery (1986 � 91). He won the 1991 Pritzker Architecture Prize. He is also known for his work with Knoll furniture. .Robert Charles Venturi Jr. is one of the founding five of postmodernism in American Architecture. He is the founding member of his firm Scott Brown and Associates along with his wife Denise Scott Brown. This husband and wife team is regarded as being one of the two most influential architects in this century not only through theory but also through practice. Both are teachers, planners and designers who have made a big impact on modern design. Venturi was awarded the Pritzker Prize in Architecture in 1991.