Pei, Robert Venturi, Cesar Pelli, and Richard Meier have led to Columbus earning the nickname " Athens of the Prairie.

* Fire Station No. 4, by Robert Venturi

Definitive postmodern architecture such as the work of Michael Graves and Robert Venturi reject the notion of a ' pure ' form or ' perfect ' architectonic detail, instead conspicuously drawing from all methods, materials, forms and colors available to architects.

In 2003 Content, a 544-page magazine-style book designed by &&& Creative and published by Koolhaas, gives an overview of the last decade of OMA projects including his designs for the Prada shops, the Seattle Public Library, a plan to save Cambridge from Harvard by rechanneling the Charles River, Lagos ' future as Earth's third-biggest town, as well as interviews with Martha Stewart and Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown.

Other nearby buildings are designed by well known architects including: Charles Moore ( Preview Center ), Graham Gund ( Bohemian Hotel ), Cesar Pelli ( movie theatre ), Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown ( SunTrust Bank ).

Architects such as Frank Gehry, Robert Venturi, Eric Owen Moss, James Stirling and Arthur Erickson were brought in to bring the campus more up to date.

Important writers on urban design theory include Christopher Alexander, Peter Calthorpe, Gordon Cullen, Andres Duany, Jane Jacobs, Mitchell Joachim, Jan Gehl, Allan B. Jacobs, Kevin Lynch, Aldo Rossi, Colin Rowe, Robert Venturi, William H. Whyte, Bill Hillier, and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk.

Robert Charles Venturi, Jr. ( born June 25, 1925 in Philadelphia ) is an American architect, founding principal of the firm Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates, and one of the major figures in the architecture of the twentieth century.

Venturi was born in Philadelphia to Robert Venturi, Sr. and Vanna ( née Luizi ) Venturi and was raised as a Quaker.

The architecture of Robert Venturi, although perhaps not as familiar today as his books, helped redirect American architecture away from a widely practiced, often banal, modernism in the 1960s to a more exploratory, and ultimately indubitable, design approach that openly drew lessons from architectural history and responded to the everyday context of the American city.

Sainsbury Wing of the National Gallery, London Inside the Seattle Art Museum Wu Hall ( left ), designed by Robert Venturi, at Princeton University

* Stories of Houses: The Vanna Venturi House in Philadelphia, by Robert Venturi

* Design Strategies of Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown

* Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown tell their life stories at Web of Stories ( video )

* Robert Venturi interview

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Twelve oil paintings date from his stay in Upper Norwood and are listed and illustrated in the catalogue raisonné prepared jointly by his fifth child Ludovic-Rodolphe Pissarro and Lionello Venturi and published in 1939.

* Venturi Fétish, a car produced by Venturi Automobiles.

The air pressure, and therefore heat, can be increased with a mechanical blower or by taking advantage of the Venturi effect.

Modernist Ludwig Mies van der Rohe is associated with the phrase " less is more "; in contrast Venturi famously said, " Less is a bore.

The Redmanol corporation manufactured pipes with translucent stems in the 1920s and a series of pipes was manufactured and distributed by the Tar Gard ( later Venturi ) Corporation of San Francisco from 1965-1975.

Marketed under names such as " the pipe ," " THE SMOKE " and " Venturi ," they used materials such as pyrolytic graphite, phenolic resin, nylon, Bakelite and other synthetics, allowing for higher temperatures in the bowl, reduced tar and aesthetic variations of color and style.

After Venturi stopped making pipes, several companies continue to make pipes from Brylon, a composite of nylon and wood flour, as a cheaper substitute for briar.

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The primary difference between carburetors and fuel injection is that fuel injection atomizes the fuel by forcibly pumping it through a small nozzle under high pressure, while a carburetor relies on suction created by intake air accelerated through a Venturi tube to draw the fuel into the airstream.

Due to the Venturi effect, tornadic winds are accelerated in the confined space of an overpass.

Larger models, which can store over 200 litres ( 53 US gallons ), are often hooked up to compressed air, utilizing the Venturi effect to produce a partial vacuum.

An interesting variation was Ford's VV ( Variable Venturi ) carburetor, which was essentially a fixed venturi carburetor with one side of the venturi hinged and movable to give a narrow throat at low rpm and a wider throat at high rpm.

He opened the myth book again and there ( along the margin next to Robert Graves' imaginative interpretation of the creation of the Dactyls from Rhea's fingertips ) were the names of four Munich bars and Meredith Wilder's address.

Jack walked off alone out the road in the searing midday sun, past Robert Allen's three-room, tarpapered house, toward the field where the other boys were playing ball, thinking of what he would do in order to make Miss Langford have him stay in after school -- because this was the day he had decided when he thought he saw the look in her eyes.

Such writers as William Faulkner and Robert Penn Warren have led the field of somewhat less important writers in a sort of post-bellum renaissance.

He is too deeply steeped in William Faulkner and Robert Penn Warren.

But Robert Rauschenberg, the neo-dadaist artist, has collaborated with several of them.

Robert Penn Warren puts it this way in `` Brother To Dragons '': `` The recognition of complicity is the beginning of innocence '', where innocence, I think, means about the same thing as redemption.

Another controversy typical of the war between the Englishman and the Examiner centered on Robert ( later Viscount ) Molesworth, a Whig leader in Ireland and a member of the Irish Privy Council.

the Honorable Robert Wagner, Sr., at that time a justice of the New York Supreme Court, was on the reception committee.

and Robert Sheckley's The Status Civilization ( 1960 ) describes a world which, frightened by the powers of destruction science has given it, becomes static and conformist.

If, the editors sometimes, dozed and printed pretentious, New, York-mind, dross, they, also printed, Malraux,, Silone,, Chiaromonte,, Gide, Bellow,, Robert Lowell, Francis Fergusson, Mary McCarthy, Delmore Schwartz, Mailer, Elizabeth Hardwick, Eleanor Clark,, and a host of, other good writers.

He was interested in Robert Musil's The Man Without Qualities.

Mayor Robert F. Wagner must, as his opponents demand, assume responsibility for his performance in office.

But watching Mrs. Cyril Ring, Berniece Dalton Janssen, Mrs. Robert Jarvis, Mrs. Walter Adams order low-calorie seafood, no bread, I could see the Ziegfeld Girls of 1920 were determined to be glamorous grandmothers of 1961.

Newest on the list are John Ciardi, W. D. Snodgrass, I. A. Richards, Oscar Williams, Robert Hillyer, John Hall Wheelock, Stephen Vincent Benet, Edwin Muir, John Peal Bishop and Maxwell Bodenheim.

-- Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara has asked Congress for authority and funds to build fallout shelters costing about 200 million dollars.

-- Your July 26 editorial regarding the position of Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy on prospective tax relief for DuPont stockholders is based on an erroneous statement of fact.

As a result, your criticism of Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy and the Department of Justice was inaccurate, unwarranted and unfair.

Perhaps there is more truth than we are wont to admit in the conviction of that ornament of Tarheelia, Robert Ruark's grandfather, who was persuaded that the great curse of the modern world is `` all this gallivantin' ''.

Laudably enough, it is offering classics and off-beat imports, but last week only one U.S. original was on the boards, Robert D. Hock's stunning Civil War work, Borak.

Their national leader, Robert Bolivar DePugh of Norborne, Mo., says the Minutemen believe that guerrilla tactics are best suited to defeat the Red onslaught.

Sir Robert Watson-Watt's `` rebuttal '' of Sir Charles Snow's Godkin Lectures is marred throughout by too forceful a desire to defend Lindemann and apparently himself from Sir Charles' supposed falsehoods while stating those `` falsehoods '' in an unclear incoherent argument.

Loneliness tore through him like a physical pain whenever he thought of Peter Robert, Nerien, Nicholas Cop, Martin Bucer, and even the compromising Louis Du Tillet.

An occasional traveler from Italy brought news of Peter Robert, who was now distributing his Bible among the Waldensian peasants.

Her mother wrote Kate of her grief at the death of Kate's baby and at Jonathan's decision to go with the South `` And, dear Kate '', she wrote, `` poor Dr. Breckenridge's son Robert is now organizing a militia company to go South, to his good father's sorrow.

Indeed, if pressed, we would say what the late Robert Henri, American painter, said to a pupil, `` Anything will do for a subject: it's what you do with it that counts ''.