Jane Pavitt is a Professor of Design and Architectural History at Kingston University

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Robert Venturi in Las Vegas in 1968.

Remembering Robert Venturi – reluctant pioneer of postmodernism

The American architect, whose career spanned seven decades, has died at the age of 93

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