She founded the Architectural History Foundation, a nonprofit scholarly book publisher, and is a frequent author on architecture-related subjects.
Newhouse grew up in New York City and graduated from Bryn Mawr College in 1959, having majored in French.
Victoria Newhouse was raised in Manhattan, New York City; her parents were John C. Benedict, a retired investment banker,[2] and an English mother.
After graduation, she moved to Paris, where she met her first husband, French count Régis de Ramel.
[4] Newhouse established the Architectural History Foundation, a nonprofit scholarly book publisher, in 1977.
The foundation aimed to support books that would otherwise be unpublished, and to raise the quality of works about architecture.
[9][1] The couple had no children, though he had three from a prior marriage, and Victoria and Samuel acquired a pug named Nero.