• The front façade of the Venturi House could be described as a house

easily drawn by children because it shows the ordinary square windows

with the traditional chimney. However, Robert’s design is more than
ordinary; all windows were created for the function of the interior. For
example, the Modernist ribbon window is for the kitchen, while the
square windows were for the bathroom and bedrooms.
• The front façade also tricks one into thinking that the house is very
symmetrical, however it is everything but that because what one sees at
the front is not found at the back. This idea is inspired by Michelangelo’s
Porta Pia in Rome, another structure where the back and front are not at
all related. 
• Robert Venturi brings in his love of Roman architecture into the interior
design of the Vanna Venturi house because the interior is planned out
like a small roman city where a road circulation path goes through the
building and meeting with the vertical circulation of the market square
where one usually finds a church but in this case is replaced with the
chimney. He also purposely uses marble flooring for the dining room to
resemble the market square.
Other reference are clear to spot in Robert’s
design such as the low pitch roof of the Low
House in Bristol, the Porta Pia in the entrance
etc. Robert Venturi’s design for the Venturi
house changed architecture of the time. His
design marked the beginning of
Postmodernism and continues to inspired
many new architects who visit today.