World-renowned architect Robert Venturi graduated from The Episcopal Academy in 1944 and discusses in a video of the creation of the school's chapel at their new Newtown Square location.
Robert Venturi/Episcopal Academy Chapel from Courtney Brinkerhoff on Vimeo.
NEWTOWN SQUARE–World-renowned architect Robert Venturi is a 1994 graduate from The Episcopal Academy. Acccording to EA, Venturi's graduate thesis at Princeton, in the 1950s, was a chapel for The Episcopal Academy.
More than 60 years later, Venturi and his wife Denise Scott Brown designed the chapel for Episcopal's new campus in Newtown Square, according to the school's website.
Watch the video to see how Venturi's dream for EA's chapel came together. The video is produced by Courtney Brinkerhoff-Rau and Rob Parker.
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