John Rauch
American architect
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association with Venturi
- In Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown
By 1964 he and partner John Rauch had established the firm of Venturi & Rauch. Scott Brown attended the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa and London’s Architectural Association School of Architecture before going to the United States with her husband, the architect Robert Scott Brown (who was killed…
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contribution to postmodernism
- In Western architecture: Postmodernism
Venturi and his partner John Rauch reintroduced to architectural design elements of wit, humanity, and historical reference in buildings such as the Tucker House in Katonah, New York (1975). Many architects in the 1970s and ’80s followed this lead and adopted a populist language scattered with Classical souvenirs. For…
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