Robert Venturi, postmodernist architect, dies at 93

Architect Robert Venturi, who rejected austere modern design and instead ushered in postmodern complexity with the dictum “Less is a bore,” has died. He was 93. His family released a statement on his firm’s website saying Venturi died at home in Philadelphia on Tuesday after a brief illness, surrounded by his wife, the architect Denise Scott Brown, and son, James Venturi. He remained active well into his 80s at Venturi, Scott Brown & Associates, the architectural firm he founded in the 1960s.