Steven Izenour
| Steven Izenour | |
|---|---|
| Born | July 16, 1940 New Haven, CT |
| Died | August 21, 2001 Vermont |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | University of Pennsylvania, Yale University |
| Occupation | Architect |
| Practice | Venturi, Scott Brown & Associates |
| Buildings | George D. Widener Memorial Treehouse, Philadelphia Zoo, Houston Children's Museum, George Izenour House |
Steven Izenour (1940 in New Haven – August 21, 2001 in Vermont) was an American architect, urbanist and theorist. He is best known as co-author, with Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown of Learning from Las Vegas, one of the most influential architectural theory books of the twentieth century. He was also principal in the Philadelphia firm Venturi, Scott Brown & Associates. He was born in New Haven, Connecticut. His father was theatre stage and lighting designer George Izenour. He was married, in 1964, to Elisabeth Margit Gemmill.
Izenour studied art history at Swarthmore College and architecture at the University of Pennsylvania, before going on to earn a Master of Environmental Design at Yale University in 1969. After completing his degree at Yale, and running the "Learning from Las Vegas" design studio for Bob Venturi, he found employment in Charles Moore's office in New Haven for a year or two. At some point in the late 1960s/early 1970s, he (and his wife, Elisabeth Margit Gemmill, and their two children, Ann-Kristin Izenour and Tessa) migrated back to Philadelphia so he could reunite with Bob Venturi, John Rauch, and Denise Scott-Brown. "He was a unique spirit from the get-go," Ms. Scott-Brown said. "The rebellious maverick side of our work appealed to him." She credits him with the nickname, "Big Tuna around the office."
As well as teaching at Yale University, Izenour also taught at the University of Pennsylvania and Drexel University.
While still a grad student at Yale he was the TA who assisted Robert Venturi in 1968 for a studio course and research project titled "Learning from Las Vegas, or Form Analysis as Design Research". The findings from the research eventually became the book "Learning from Las Vegas" first published in 1972 and republished in a revised edition in 1977 titled Learning from Las Vegas. The Forgotten Symbolism of Architectural Form.
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