“We look backward at history and tradition to go forward; we can also look downward to go upward. And withholding judgement may be used as a tool to make later judgement more sensitive. This is a way of learning from everything.” –Robert Venturi in Learning from Las Vegas (1972) Last week, the design world lost one of its most influential forces, Robert Venturi. The Pritzker Prize-winning architect died on September 18 in Philadelphia at the age of 93.