Robert Venturi was an American architect and a major figure within architecture in the twentieth century. Venturi graduated summa cum laude from Princeton University and in 1950 earned his M.F.A from Princeton. Venturi worked alongside his wife and partner, Denise Scott Brown, to found the architectural firm Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates. Together they helped shape the modern world of architecture with their buildings, theoretical writings, and teaching. In 1991, Venturi was awarded the Pritzker Prize in Architecture. Venturi died in September of 2018 at the age of 93.