The Vanna Venturi House, in the Chestnut Hill section of Philadelphia.Credit Photographs in the Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.

The future of yet another post-Modernist building hangs in the balance. A house in the Chestnut Hill section of Philadelphia that the architect Robert Venturi designed for his mother, and which is known as the Vanna Venturi House, is on the market for the first time since 1973. The three-bedroom home, listed at $1.75 million by Kurfiss Sotheby’s International Realty, was a formative project for Mr. Venturi and his wife and longtime colleague, Denise Scott Brown.  “Everything we have ever done since was an embryo in that house,” Ms. Brown said in a telephone interview on Wednesday. “It was a huge aesthetics revolution.”.....Continue Reading

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