Jim Venturi is the founder and prin­ci­pal designer of ReThink Studio and ReThinkNYC. Through his expe­ri­ences in infor­ma­tion tech­nol­ogy, plan­ning, and archi­tec­ture, Venturi focuses on solv­ing the infra­struc­tural, social and eco­nomic chal­lenges of trans­porta­tion planning.

This holis­tic approach is reflected in both his work at ReThink Studio and his past work as a net­work archi­tect, bridg­ing ana­lyt­i­cal and cre­ative assets by build­ing early tech­nol­ogy net­works and devel­op­ing soft­ware. He founded Creative Technologies, a bou­tique sys­tems inte­gra­tion tech­nol­ogy firm cater­ing to archi­tects and design­ers. In 1996, the com­pany shifted focus to design­ing and imple­ment­ing email and net­work migra­tions for Fortune 1000 companies.

Venturi’s work expe­ri­ence in archi­tec­ture and urban plan­ning comes from work­ing with archi­tects in his early career and teach­ing archi­tec­ture stu­dents CADsoft­ware at Parsons School of Design.  He gained fur­ther expe­ri­ence more recently from the pro­duc­tion of Bob and Denise, a fea­ture film in post-pro­duc­tion about the renowned archi­tects Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown.