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A-Level: Pop domestic architecture

Robert Venturi, John Rauch, and Denise Scott Brown, House in New Castle County, Delaware, 1978-83 (photo: © Venturi, Scott Brown Collection/The Architectural Archives, University of Pennsylvania/Detail of photo by Matt Wargo) — Modern architecture had its time in the sun, Venturi argued, but it was time to move on… to the “decorated shed.”

Robert Venturi, House in New Castle County, ...

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