Denise Scott Brown

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Denise Scott Brown, (born October 3, 1931) is an architect, urban designer, planner and principal of the Philadelphia firm Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates.^[1]

[edit] Life

Born in Nkana, Zambia to Jewish parents Simon and Phyllis Hepker Lakofski, Scott Brown studied first in South Africa at the University of the Witwatersrand from 1948 to 1951. She later moved to London to study at the Architectural Association in 1952 and married Robert Scott Brown on July 21, 1955 (deceased in 1959 in a car accident). After the death of her husband, she moved to the United States and obtained a master's degrees from the University of Pennsylvania where she also served as a faculty member after her graduation (1960 to 1965).^[2] In 1967, she married her second husband, the architect Robert Venturi, with whom she had James C. Venturi.^[3]

Well known as a scholar in urban planning, Scott Brown would later teach at Berkeley, UCLA, Harvard and Yale. In 1967 she joined architect Robert Venturi as a principal in charge of planning. She contributed to such major undertakings as the planning of South Street, Philadelphia, Miami Beach, and Memphis, Tennessee. More recently focused on campus planning, Scott Brown has planned work for Brown University, Williams College and the University of Kentucky.^[4]

[edit] Publications

Architecture as Signs and Systems: for a Mannerist Time, Venturi, Robert, and Denise Scott Brown. Cambridge: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2004.
Urban Concepts, Architectural Design Profile 60: January-February 1990. London: Academy Editions; distributed in U.S. by St. Martin's Press.
A View from the Campidoglio: Selected Essays, 1953-1984, Venturi Robert, and Denise Scott Brown, New York: Harper & Row, 1984.
Learning from Las Vegas, Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown and Steven Izenour, Cambridge: MIT Press, 1972; revised edition 1977.