Louis Kahn
Robert Jr. attended a Quaker grade school, then the Episcopal Academy, and later Princeton University, earning both bachelor's and master's degrees. From 1954 to 1956 he was a Rome Prize Fellow at the American Academy in Rome. He then taught architectural theory at the University of Pennsylvania, working with Louis Kahn. In 1960, Venturi met fellow lecturer and future partner Denise Scott Brown at the university. As a professional architect, he worked in the offices of Eero Saarinen, Louis Kahn, and Oscar Stonorov.