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Steven Song
Steven Phillip Song is a Korean-American architect and real estate investor. Song, as a founding principal of the design firSCAAA first came to recognition through collaborations with his mentors, the architects and theoreticians Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown. Song is also the CEO oAxle Companies a family office that invests in real estate and food companies. Song is on the board of directors of the Hammer Museum, the Executive Council of the Clinton Foundation Health Access Initiative, and the Board of Trustees of SCI-Arc (Southern California Institute of Architecture). Education Song is a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University, the School of Architecture. He then completed his Master of Architecture degree from the University of Pennsylvania. Theoretical Writings In 2007, Song wrotShifting Paradigms: Renovating the Decorated Shed together with Sun-Young Park. The article explores and furthers ideas discussed in Venturi and Scott Brown's latest book, Architecture as Signs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Venturi
Robert Charles Venturi Jr. (June 25, 1925 – September 18, 2018) was an American architect, founding principal of the firm Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates, and one of the major architectural figures of the twentieth century. Together with his wife and partner, Denise Scott Brown, he helped shape the way that architects, planners and students experience and think about architecture and the built environment. Their buildings, planning, theoretical writings, and teaching have also contributed to the expansion of discourse about architecture. Venturi was awarded the Pritzker Prize in Architecture in 1991; the prize was awarded to him alone, despite a request to include his equal partner, Scott Brown. Subsequently, a group of women architects attempted to get her name added retroactively to the prize, but the Pritzker Prize jury declined to do so. Venturi is also known for having coined the maxim "Less is a bore", a postmodern antidote to Mies van der Rohe's famous modernist di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
