Denise Scott Brown

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Denise Scott Brown

Denise Scott Brown (born Denise Lakofski in Nkana , Northern Rhodesia , October 3, 1931 ) is an important representative of postmodern architecture , especially as a theorist and publicist . Together with her husband Robert Venturi, she is one of the most influential architects of the 20th century .

Life

Denise is the daughter of Jewish parents, Simon Lakofski and Phyllis Hepker. Between 1948 and 1952 she studied at the Witwatersrand University in Johannesburg , where she met her future husband, Robert Scott Brown. In 1952 she traveled to London , continued her education at the Architectural Association School of Architecture and graduated three years later with a degree in architecture. Denise Lakofski married Robert Scott Brown in London on July 21, 1955, and the couple spent the next three years working and traveling in Europe . In 1958 the couple went to Philadelphia to study at the University of Pennsylvania . The following year, her husband was killed in a car accident. In 1960 she made her master's degree in urban planning and became a lecturer at the university. At a meeting in the faculty , she met the architect Robert Venturi .

For the next few years she taught at the University of California at Berkeley , was co-chair of the Urban Design program at the University of California (UCLA) in Los Angeles , and at Yale University in New Haven . She met Venturi again in the late 1960s, and they were married on July 23, 1967 in Santa Monica . The marriage resulted in a son, James Venturi. Together with his partner John Rauch , Venturi opened an architecture office in Philadelphia in 1964, followed by Denise Scott Brown, Steven Izenour and David Vaughum in 1967 . In the years that followed, numerous renowned architecture projects were realized under the name Venturi, Rauch & Scott Brown , for example the Benjamin Franklin Memorial (1972) and the Humanities Building and Social Sciences Building at the State University of New York . In 1986 they were entrusted with the design of the extension to the National Gallery in London, for which they presented designs in the style of post-modern classicism . In several books, the married couple Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown have helped to change the way people think and view architecture and have made a significant contribution to architectural theory.

In 2018, the Architekturzentrum Wien dedicated the world's first solo exhibition to her work as an urban planner and architect.

Awards and honors

literature

  • 1966 Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture .
  • 1971 Learning from Pop .
  • 1977 with Robert Venturi and Steven Izenour: Learning from Las vegas , Revised Edition. MIT Press, Cambridge Massachusetts, USA, ISBN 0-262-72006-X .
  • 1979 Learning from Las Vegas - The Forgotten Symbolism of Architectural Form . Vieweg, Braunschweig / Wiesbaden, ISBN 3-528-08753-6 .
  • 1985 A View from the Campidoglio .
  • 1992 Carolina Vaccaro and Frederic Schwartz: Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown and Associates , Birkhäuser Verlag, ISBN 3-7608-8134-3 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Downtown Denise Scott Brown. Retrieved November 25, 2018 .
  2. ^ Member History: Denise Scott Brown. American Philosophical Society, accessed May 22, 2018 (English, with short biography).
personal data
SURNAME Scott Brown, Denise
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lakofski, Denise (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American architect
DATE OF BIRTH October 3, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Nkana , Zambia