Tuesday, February 16, 2010

10.313 DENISE SCOTT BROWN

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  1. ARCHITECT, PLANNER, WRITER, EDUCATOR, AND PRINCIPAL OF THE FIRM VENTURI, SCOTT BROWN AND ASSOCIATES IN PHILADELPHIA. DENISE SCOTT BROWN AND HER HUSBAND AND PARTNER, ROBERT VENTURI, ARE REGARDED AMONG THE MOST INFLUENTIAL ARCHITECTS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY, BOTH THROUGH THEIR ARCHITECTURE AND PLANNING, AND THEORETICAL WRITING AND TEACHING. SHE INVITED VENTURI IN 1966 ASKED HIM TO VISIT LAS VEGAS WITH HER. IN 1972, WITH VENTURI AND STEVEN IZENOUR, SCOTT BROWN WROTE LEARNING FROM LAS VEGAS: THE FORGOTTEN SYMBOLISM OF ARCHITECTURAL FORM. THE BOOK PUBLISHED STUDIES OF THE LAS VEGAS STRIP, THE BOOK JOINED VENTURI'S PREVIOUS COMPLEXITY AND CONTRADICTION IN ARCHITECTURE (MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, 1966) AS A REBUKE TO ORTHODOX MODERNISM AND ELITE ARCHITECTURAL TASTES, AND A POINTED ACCEPTANCE OF AMERICAN SPRAWL AND VERNACULAR ARCHITECTURE.

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