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Your Guide to Downtown Denise Scott Brown: Hintergrund 56 Jeremy Eric Tenenbaum with Denise Scott Brown Architekturzentrum Wien & Park...

As part of our ongoing “Women in Architecture” series at Optima, we’re taking a look at another pioneering female figure: Denise Scott Brown.

They are among the most talented architects of their age. Yet the credit, praise and awards have gone to men instead. Meet the women who are tired of being written out of history

Director of the Rauh Jewish History Program; Archives at the Heinz History Center of Pittsburgh takes us on a ‘visit’ to the Betty and Irving Abrams home designed in 1979-82 by Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown and explores the broader trends of Jewish patronage for modern architecture along the neighborhood’s infamous Woodland Road, and throughout the region. Recently a contentious local preservation issue, the property’s new owner wants the dwelling dismantled and removed from their…

Robert Venturi was born in Philadelphia in 1925 where he practices now. He studied at Princeton University and graduated in 1947. His earlier architectural career included periods with Louis Kahn and Eero Saarinen. Denise Scott Brown was born in Zambia. She studied at the Architectural Association in London followed by two Masters degrees, in planning […]

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The timing of the "Postmodernism: Style and Subversion" exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum is both natural and strange. It seems to be a reasonable successor of the "Modernism" exhibition, following several other V&A exhibitions on major styles and movements like "Baroque" and "Art Deco." But it also sounds almost laughable just because of the tackiness of the style. Who would even think about organizing a retrospective on that? The V&A had the guts to do it, and they've done it…

Through their pioneering theory and provocative built work, husband and wife duo Robert Venturi (born June 25, 1925) and Denise Scott Brown (born October 3, 1931) were at the forefront of the postmodern movement, leading the charge in one of the most significant shifts in architecture of the 20th century by publishing seminal books such as Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture (authored by Robert Venturi alone) and Learning from Las Vegas (co-authored by Venturi, Scott Brown and…

Style: Women in Architecture

Discover the careers and work of these influential architects