Scully, Vincent Joseph, Jr.
Scully, Vincent Joseph, Jr.,
1920–2018, American architectural historian, b. New Haven, Conn., grad. Yale (B.A., 1940; Ph.D., 1949). As a professor of art history at Yale (1947–91, though he taught his introduction to art history until 2009) and as an author, he exerted an important influence on the course of contemporary architecture and on the relationship between architecture and society. Early on Scully promoted modernist architecture, but he later denounced the constant repetition of its clichés and the destruction of urban neighborhoods in the name of renewal. American Architecture and Urbanism (1969, rev. ed. 2003) enunciated these views, which were expanded in Architecture: The Natural and the Manmade (1991). Scully particularly championed Louis KahnKahn, Louis Isadore, 1901–74, American architect, b. Estonia. He and his family moved to Philadelphia in 1905, and he later studied at the Univ. of Pennsylvania. From the 1920s through World War II, Kahn worked on numerous housing projects including Carver Court (1944),
..... Click the link for more information. and Robert VenturiVenturi, Robert,
1925–2018, American architect and architectural theorist, b. Philadelphia, grad. Princeton (B.A., 1947; M.F.A., 1950). An important and highly influential theorist, Venturi inveighed in his writings against the banality and simplicity of postwar modern
..... Click the link for more information. . Other books include The Shingle Style (1955), Frank Lloyd Wright (1960), The Earth, the Temple, and the Gods: Greek Sacred Architecture (1961), Modern Architecture: The Architecture of Democracy (1961), and The Shingle Style Today (1974).