Vanna Venturi House from the west (rear). V V House is viewed as the first Post-modern building, being designed in the early 1960s by architect Robert Venturi for his mother. In the Chestnut Hill neighborhood of NW Philadelphia. The entire neighborhood is a National Register of Historic Places historic district.‹›
Vanna Venturi House

Venturi Scott Brown

Exterior · Chestnut Hill, United States · 1964

Photo: Smallbones · 2010-12-02 · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons · Original 2535×1901

Vanna Venturi House from the west (rear). V V House is viewed as the first Post-modern building, being designed in the early 1960s by architect Robert Venturi for his mother. In the Chestnut Hill neighborhood of NW Philadelphia. The entire neighborhood is a National Register of Historic Places historic district.

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