Welcome to a very special Part 2 Episode of Architectette! We continue our conversation with Denise Scott Brown.

Denise Scott Brown is an architect; planner & urban designer; and a theorist, writer and educator whose projects, research, and writing have influenced designers and architects since the 1960s. Her writings have changed the practice of architecture as we know it and her built work spans several continents. Some of her notable writings include Learning from Las Vegas, Having Words, and Architecture as Signs and Systems. She was a long-standing principal of the firm Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates.

Many of the topics we cover are influenced from the recently published book, ⁠Denise Scott Brown in Other Eyes: Portraits of an Architect⁠ edited by Frida Grahn.  

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We talk about:

- The challenges of balancing community and developer needs for Philadelphia’s South Street and how racial politics influenced the process. 

- Denise's design process for the Provincial Capitol Building in Toulouse. She explains her inspiration for the building’s iconic diagonal and other aesthetic elements.

- Inspiration for her article: Sexism and the Star System which talks about gender and architecture. We hear from her first hand what it was like to be seen as a lesser partner to Robert Venturi and how she dealt with being overlooked, rejected from the Pritzker Prize, or not acknowledged for her significant contributions. 

- In addition to her illustrious career, Denise was a mom! She shares about her son, Jimmy, and the realities of balancing career and parenthood.

- How Denise became interested in photography to document and study urban conditions and she shares the influences and experience behind that ICONIC photo of her and Bob (Venturi) with the Las Vegas Strip in the background.

- We end with the National Gallery- sign the petition to save the building!

I hope you enjoy this episode as much as I enjoyed interviewing Denise. (Denise, Emma, and Nyma - THANK YOU!)

Links:

⁠Studio Architecture's Gift to Academe⁠

⁠Denise Scott Brown in Other Eyes: Portraits of an Architect⁠

⁠Venturi Scott Brown Website⁠

⁠Learning from Las Vegas⁠ (article summary)

Aperture Article (Photos of Denise's Home)

⁠Stop Current Sainsbury Wing Renovation⁠

Photo: Denise Scott Brown, 2023, photograph by Nyamsuren Erdenebayar 

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