Denise Scott Brown (née Lakofski; born October 3, 1931) is an American architect, planner, writer, educator, and principal of the firm Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates in

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. Scott Brown and her husband and partner,

Robert Venturi Robert Charles Venturi Jr. (June 25, 1925 – September 18, 2018) was an American architect, founding principal of the firm Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates, and one of the major architectural figures of the twentieth century. Together with h ...

, are regarded as among the most influential architects of the twentieth century, both through their architecture and planning, and theoretical writing and teaching.

Biography

Born to Jewish parents Simon and Phyllis (Hepker) Lakofski, Denise Lakofski had the vision from the time she was five years old that she would be an architect. Pursuing this goal, she spent her summers working with architects, and from 1948 to 1952, after attending

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, studied in South Africa at the

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. She briefly entered liberal politics, but was frustrated by the lack of acceptance of women in the field. Lakofski traveled to London in 1952, working for the

modernist Modernism is both a philosophy, philosophical and arts movement that arose from broad transformations in Western world, Western society during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The movement reflected a desire for the creation of new fo ...

architect

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. She continued her education there, winning admission to the

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to learn “useful skills in the building of a just South Africa,” within an intellectually rich environment which embraced women. She was joined there by Robert Scott Brown, whom she had met at Witwatersrand in 1954, and graduated with a degree in architecture in 1955. Denise Lakofski and Robert Scott Brown were married on July 21, 1955. The couple spent the next three years working and traveling throughout Europe and part of their trip was to Italy with an itinerary devised by their close friend, the architectural historian

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with whom they had studied in South Africa and met up with again in London. In 1958, they moved to

, Pennsylvania, to study at the

University of Pennsylvania The University of Pennsylvania (also known as Penn or UPenn) is a Private university, private research university in Philadelphia. It is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and is ranked among the highest- ...

's planning department. In 1959, Robert died in a car accident. Denise Scott Brown completed her master's degree in city planning in 1960 and, upon graduation, became a faculty member at the university.

Academic career

While teaching, she completed a master's degree in architecture. At a 1960 faculty meeting, she argued against demolishing the university's library (now the

Fisher Fine Arts Library The Fisher Fine Arts Library was the primary library of the University of Pennsylvania from 1891 to 1962. The red sandstone, brick-and- terra-cotta Venetian Gothic giant—part fortress and part cathedral—was designed by the acclaimed ...

), designed by

architect

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. At the meeting, she met

, a young architect and fellow professor. The two became collaborators and taught courses together from 1962 to 1964. Scott Brown left the University of Pennsylvania in 1965. Becoming known as a scholar in

urban planning Urban planning, also known as town planning, city planning, regional planning, or rural planning, is a technical and political process that is focused on the development and design of land use and the built environment, including air, water, ...

, she taught at the

University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant un ...

, and was then named co-chair of the Urban Design Program at the

University of California, Los Angeles The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public land-grant research university in Los Angeles, California. UCLA's academic roots were established in 1881 as a teachers college then known as the southern branch of the Californ ...

. During her years in the Southwest, Scott Brown became interested in the newer cities of Los Angeles and

Las Vegas Las Vegas (; Spanish for "The Meadows"), often known simply as Vegas, is the 25th-most populous city in the United States, the most populous city in the state of Nevada, and the county seat of Clark County. The city anchors the Las Veg ...

. She invited Venturi to visit her classes at

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, and in 1966 asked him to visit

with her. The two were married in

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, on July 23, 1967. Scott Brown moved back to

in 1967 to join Robert Venturi's firm, Venturi and Rauch, and became principal in charge of planning in 1969. Denise Scott Brown later taught at

Yale University Yale University is a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and among the most prestigious in the w ...

, where she developed courses that encouraged architects to study problems in the built environment employing both traditional empirical methods of social science but also media studies and pop culture. In 2003 she was a visiting lecturer with Venturi at

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Graduate School of Design The Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) is the graduate school of design at Harvard University, a private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It offers master's and doctoral programs in architecture, landscape architecture, urban ...

Architecture and planning

In 1972, with Venturi and

Steven Izenour Steven Izenour (July 16, 1940 in New Haven – August 21, 2001 in Vermont) was an American architect, urbanist and theorist. He is best known as co-author, with Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown, of ''Learning from Las Vegas'', one of the m ...

, Scott Brown wrote '' Learning From Las Vegas: the Forgotten Symbolism of Architectural Form''. The book published studies of the

Strip, undertaken with students in an architectural research studio course which Scott Brown taught with Venturi in 1970 at

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's School of Architecture and Planning. The book coined the terms "Duck" and "Decorated Shed" as applied to opposing architectural styles. Scott Brown has remained a prolific writer on architecture and urban planning. The book joined Venturi's previous ''Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture'' (

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, 1966) as a rebuke to orthodox modernism and elite architectural tastes, and a pointed acceptance of American sprawl and

vernacular architecture Vernacular architecture is building done outside any academic tradition, and without professional guidance. This category encompasses a wide range and variety of building types, with differing methods of construction, from around the world, bo ...

. Scott Brown and Venturi strove for understanding the city in terms of social, economic and cultural perspectives, viewing it as a set of complex systems upon planning. As part of their design process, the Venturi, Scott Brown & Associates firm studies the trends of an area, marking future expansions or congestions. These studies influence plans and design makeup. Such an approach was used for their Berlin Tomorrow Competition, putting the population movement and daily pattern in consideration. Similarly, the

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plan took into consideration the landmark of the early campus and the usages of campus space prior to planning. Scott Brown holds a systematic approach to planning in what is coined as “FFF studios.” In it, form, forces and function determine and help define the urban environment. For example, the Venturi, Scott Brown & Associates firm studied both the expansion of Dartmouth College campus along with the wilderness surrounding the perimeter of the area. The fusion of Eastern and Western ideas in the Nikko hotel chain are evident by merging the Western notion of comfort (62 Stanislaus Von Moos) with historical

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patterns with their hidden order. The architecture applies a post-Las Vegas modern feel while projecting the traditional Japanese shopping street. Guest rooms are typically made with Western taste, with fabrics, wallpaper, and carpet exclusively from the Venturi, Scott Brown & Associates firm that reflect the scenery outside. In contrast, the exterior “street” complex reflects Japanese urban and traditional life. With the firm, renamed Venturi, Rauch and Scott Brown in 1980, and finally Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates in 1989, Scott Brown has led major civic planning projects and studies, and more recently has directed many university campus planning projects. By the beginning of the 1980s, Venturi and Brown had made huge success with their ideas and concepts. Critics characterized them as the most influential and visionary architects of the time and continued their path with a clear approach, with their radical theories of design. She has also served as principal-in-charge with

on the firm's larger architectural projects, including the

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of London's National Gallery, the capitol building in

Toulouse Toulouse ( , ; oc, Tolosa ) is the prefecture of the French department of Haute-Garonne and of the larger region of Occitania. The city is on the banks of the River Garonne, from the Mediterranean Sea, from the Atlantic Ocean and fr ...

and the Nikko Hotel and Spa Resort in Japan.

Pritzker Prize controversy

When Robert Venturi was named as winner of the 1991

Pritzker Architecture Prize The Pritzker Architecture Prize is an international architecture award presented annually "to honor a living architect or architects whose built work demonstrates a combination of those qualities of talent, vision and commitment, which has produ ...

, Scott Brown did not attend the award ceremony in protest.Robin Pogrebin (April 17, 2013
Partner Without the Prize
''The New York Times''. The prize organization, the Hyatt Foundation, stated that, in 1991, it honored only individual architects, a practice that changed in 2001 with the selection of Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron. However, the award was given to two recipients in 1988. In 2013, Women In Design, a student organization spearheaded by Caroline Amory James and Arielle Assouline-Lichten at the

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started a petition for Scott Brown to receive joint recognition with her partner

. When awarded the

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in 2017 Scott Brown referred to the Pritzker controversy and subsequent petition saying "I was very touched by the Pritzker petition – and that is my prize in the end. 20,000 people wrote from all over the world and every one of them called me Denise."

Room at the top

In 1989, Scott Brown published her famous essay, "Room at the Top? Sexism and the Star System in Architecture". Although Scott Brown wrote the essay in 1975, she decided not to publish it at the time, out of fear for damaging her career. The essay describes her struggle to be recognized as an equal partner of the firm, in an architecture world that was predominantly male. She has since been an advocate for Women in Architecture and has spoken out about discrimination within the profession on several accounts.

Architecture projects

* Undergraduate Science Building, Life Sciences Institute and Palmer Commons complex

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;

Ann Arbor, Michigan Ann Arbor is a city in the U.S. state of Michigan and the county seat of Washtenaw County. The 2020 census recorded its population to be 123,851. It is the principal city of the Ann Arbor Metropolitan Statistical Area, which encompasses all ...

(2005) *

Brown University Brown University is a private research university in Providence, Rhode Island. Brown is the seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the United States, founded in 1764 as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providenc ...

Campus Life Plan;

Providence, Rhode Island Providence is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Rhode Island. One of the oldest cities in New England, it was founded in 1636 by Roger Williams, a Reformed Baptist theologian and religious exile from the Massachusetts ...

(2004) *

Tsinghua University Tsinghua University (; abbr. THU) is a national public research university in Beijing, China. The university is funded by the Ministry of Education. The university is a member of the C9 League, Double First Class University Plan, Projec ...

Campus Plan Suggestions; Beijing, China (2004) * Baker-Berry Library,

Dartmouth College Dartmouth College (; ) is a private research university in Hanover, New Hampshire. Established in 1769 by Eleazar Wheelock, it is one of the nine colonial colleges chartered before the American Revolution. Although founded to educate Native ...

;

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, New Hampshire (2002) *

Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University—also known as the Harvard Radcliffe Institute—is a part of Harvard University that fosters interdisciplinary research across the humanities, sciences, social sciences, arts, a ...

Campus Plan;

Boston Boston (), officially the City of Boston, is the state capital and most populous city of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, as well as the cultural and financial center of the New England region of the United States. It is the 24th- mo ...

, Massachusetts (2002) *

Williams College Williams College is a private liberal arts college in Williamstown, Massachusetts. It was established as a men's college in 1793 with funds from the estate of Ephraim Williams, a colonist from the Province of Massachusetts Bay who was kille ...

Campus Plan;

Williamstown, Massachusetts Williamstown is a town in the northern part of Berkshire County, in the northwest corner of Massachusetts, United States. It shares a border with Vermont to the north and New York to the west. It is part of the Pittsfield, Massachusetts Metropol ...

(2001) *

Frist Campus Center Frist Campus Center is a focal point of social life at Princeton University. The campus center is a combination of the former Palmer Physics Lab, and a modern addition completed in 2001. It was endowed with money from the fortune the Frist family ...

Princeton University Princeton University is a private research university in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and one of the ...

; New Jersey (2000) * Rauner Special Collections Library,

; Hanover, New Hampshire (2000) * Perelman Quadrangle,

;

(2000) * Provincial Capitol Building;

, France (1999) * Gonda (Goldschmied) Neurosciences and Genetics Research Center,

; Los Angeles, California (1998) *

Campus Plan;

(1997–2005) *

Campus Plan;

Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania Bryn Mawr, pronounced , from Welsh language, Welsh for big hill, is a census-designated place (CDP) located across three townships: Radnor Township, Pennsylvania, Radnor Township and Haverford Township, Pennsylvania, Haverford Township in Delaw ...

(1997) *

Mielparque Mielparque (メルパルク ''Meruparuku'') is a Japanese hotel chain. Mielparque operates hotels throughout Honshū, Shikoku, and Kyūshū is the third-largest island of Japan's five main islands and the most southerly of the four larg ...

Nikko Kirifuri Resort; Nikko National Park, Japan (1997) * Museum of Contemporary Art,

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;

La Jolla, California La Jolla ( , ) is a hilly, seaside neighborhood within the city of San Diego, California, United States, occupying of curving coastline along the Pacific Ocean. The population reported in the 2010 census was 46,781. La Jolla is surrounded on ...

(1996) *

Denver Denver () is a consolidated city and county, the capital, and most populous city of the U.S. state of Colorado. Its population was 715,522 at the 2020 census, a 19.22% increase since 2010. It is the 19th-most populous city in the Unit ...

Civic Center Plan;

, Colorado (1995) * Charles P. Stevenson, Jr. Library,

Bard College Bard College is a private liberal arts college in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York. The campus overlooks the Hudson River and Catskill Mountains, and is within the Hudson River Historic District—a National Historic Landmark. Founded in 1860, ...

;

Annandale-on-Hudson, New York Annandale-on-Hudson is a hamlet in Dutchess County, New York, United States, located in the Hudson Valley town of Red Hook, across the Hudson River from Kingston. The hamlet consists mainly of the Bard College campus. Municipal services Emerge ...

(1994) * Children's Museum;

Houston Houston (; ) is the most populous city in Texas, the most populous city in the Southern United States, the fourth-most populous city in the United States, and the sixth-most populous city in North America, with a population of 2,304,580 ...

, Texas (1992) * Sainsbury Wing,

National Gallery The National Gallery is an art museum in Trafalgar Square in the City of Westminster, in Central London, England. Founded in 1824, it houses a collection of over 2,300 paintings dating from the mid-13th century to 1900. The current Director ...

, London; United Kingdom (1991) *

Seattle Art Museum The Seattle Art Museum (commonly known as SAM) is an art museum located in Seattle, Washington, United States. It operates three major facilities: its main museum in downtown Seattle; the Seattle Asian Art Museum (SAAM) in Volunteer Park on Cap ...

;

Seattle Seattle ( ) is a seaport city on the West Coast of the United States. It is the seat of King County, Washington. With a 2020 population of 737,015, it is the largest city in both the state of Washington and the Pacific Northwest region o ...

, Washington (1991) * Restoration of the Fisher Fine Arts Library,

;

(1991) *

Campus Planning;

(1988–2000) * Center City Development Plan;

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(1987) * Lewis Thomas Laboratory;

, New Jersey (1986) * Gordon Wu Hall;

, New Jersey (1983) * Hennepin Avenue Transit/Entertainment Study;

Minneapolis Minneapolis () is the largest city in Minnesota, United States, and the county seat of Hennepin County. The city is abundant in water, with thirteen lakes, wetlands, the Mississippi River, creeks and waterfalls. Minneapolis has its origin ...

, Minnesota (1981) * Jim Thorpe Historic District Planning Study;

Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania Jim Thorpe is a borough and the county seat of Carbon County in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. It is part of Northeastern Pennsylvania. It is historically known as the burial site of Native American sports legend Jim Thorpe. Jim Thorpe is l ...

(1979) * Washington Avenue Revitalization Plan;

Miami Beach, Florida Miami Beach is a coastal resort city in Miami-Dade County, Florida. It was incorporated on March 26, 1915. The municipality is located on natural and man-made barrier islands between the Atlantic Ocean and Biscayne Bay, the latter of which ...

(1978) *

Best Products Best Products Company, Inc., or simply Best, was a chain of United States, American catalog showroom retail stores founded by Sydney and Frances Lewis in 1957 and formerly headquartered in Richmond, Virginia. The company was in existence for four ...

Catalog Showroom;

Langhorne, Pennsylvania Langhorne Borough is a borough in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. The population was 1,622 at the time of the 2010 census. The mailing address "Langhorne" is used for Langhorne Borough, but it is also used broadly to describe the majority of surro ...

, (1978) * Allen Memorial Art Museum,

Oberlin College Oberlin College is a private liberal arts college and conservatory of music in Oberlin, Ohio. It is the oldest coeducational liberal arts college in the United States and the second oldest continuously operating coeducational institute of highe ...

;

Oberlin, Ohio Oberlin is a city in Lorain County, Ohio, United States, 31 miles southwest of Cleveland. Oberlin is the home of Oberlin College, a liberal arts college and music conservatory with approximately 3,000 students. The town is the birthplace of th ...

(1976) * Basco Showroom;

(1976) * Franklin Court;

(1976) * South Street "Crosstown Community" Planning;

(1970) * Shanghai High-rise skyscraper office towers; Shanghai, China (2003) * U.S. Embassy Competition for U.S. Embassy in Berlin;

Berlin Berlin ( , ) is the capital and largest city of Germany by both area and population. Its 3.7 million inhabitants make it the European Union's most populous city, according to population within city limits. One of Germany's sixteen constitu ...

(1995)

Awards and recognition

; 2017 *

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Architecture Award; 2016 *

AIA Gold Medal The AIA Gold Medal is awarded by the American Institute of Architects conferred "by the national AIA Board of Directors in recognition of a significant body of work of lasting influence on the theory and practice of architecture." It is the Ins ...

; 2016 (with

) * Edmund N. Bacon Prize,

Philadelphia Center for Architecture The Center for Architecture and Design is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The Center produces educational programs related to the topics of architecture, urban planning, and design, including talks, wor ...

; 2010 * Design Mind Award, Cooper-Hewitt National Design Awards; 2007 (with

) * Athena Medal,

Congress for the New Urbanism New Urbanism is an urban design movement which promotes environmentally friendly habits by creating walkable neighbourhoods containing a wide range of housing and job types. It arose in the United States in the early 1980s, and has gradually inf ...

; 2007 * Vilcek Prize in Architecture, The Vilcek Foundation; 2007 *Membership,

American Philosophical Society The American Philosophical Society (APS), founded in 1743 in Philadelphia, is a scholarly organization that promotes knowledge in the sciences and humanities through research, professional meetings, publications, library resources, and communit ...

; 2006 * The Carpenters' Company Master Builder Award; 2005 * Harvard Radcliffe Institute Medal; 2005
Visionary Woman Award
, Moore College of Art & Design; 2003 *

Vincent Scully Prize The Vincent Scully Prize was established in 1999 to recognize exemplary practice, scholarship or criticism in architecture, historic preservation and urban design. Created by the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C., the award first honored ...

National Building Museum The National Building Museum is located at 401 F Street NW in Washington, D.C. It is a museum of "architecture, design, engineering, construction, and urban planning". It was created by an act of Congress in 1980, and is a private non-profit i ...

; 2002 (with

) * Topaz Medallion,

American Institute of Architects The American Institute of Architects (AIA) is a professional organization for architects in the United States. Headquartered in Washington, D.C., the AIA offers education, government advocacy, community redevelopment, and public outreach to s ...

; 1996 *

National Medal of Arts The National Medal of Arts is an award and title created by the United States Congress in 1984, for the purpose of honoring artists and patrons of the arts. A prestigious American honor, it is the highest honor given to artists and arts patrons ...

, United States Presidential Award; 1992 (with

) * Chicago Architecture Award, 1987 * ACSA ( Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture) Distinguished Professor Award; 1986-87 * AIA Firm Award, to Venturi, Rauch and Scott Brown; 1985 Alongside

Phyllis Lambert Phyllis Barbara Lambert, (née Bronfman; born January 24, 1927) is a Canadian architect, philanthropist, and member of the Bronfman family. Life Born in Montreal, Quebec, she studied at The Study, a premier independent school for girls, and wa ...

, Blanche Lemco van Ginkel and

Cornelia Oberlander Cornelia Hahn Oberlander (20 June 1921 – 22 May 2021) was a German-born Canadian landscape architect. Her firm, Cornelia Hahn Oberlander Landscape Architects, was founded in 1953, when she moved to Vancouver. During her career she contribu ...

, she is one of four prominent female architects profiled in the 2018 documentary film '' City Dreamers''.Alex Bozikovic
"City Dreamers: Portraits of four women who shaped the world we live in"
''

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'', May 16, 2019.

Published works

* Denise Scott Brown, ''Having Words'' (London: Architectural Association, 2009) * Denise Scott Brown, ''Room at the top? Sexism and the Star System in Architecture'', 1989, in: RENDELL, J., PENNER, B. and BORDEN, I. (ed.): ''Gender Space Architecture. An Interdisciplinary Introduction'', Routhledge, New York, 2000, p 258-265 * ''Learning from Las Vegas: the Forgotten Symbolism of Architectural Form,'' (with Robert Venturi and Steven Izenour), Cambridge: MIT Press, 1972; revised edition 1977. * ''A View from the Campidoglio: Selected Essays, 1953–1984,'' (with Robert Venturi), New York: Harper & Row, 1984. * ''Urban Concepts'', Architectural Design Profile 60: January–February 1990. London: Academy Editions; distributed in U.S. by St. Martin's Press. * ''Architecture as Signs and Systems: for a Mannerist Time'' (with Robert Venturi), Cambridge: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2004. *
The art in waste
' (article), In:''Distoriones urbanas / Urban Distorisions'', Madrid: Basurama, 2006. * ''On Public Interior Space'' (with Maurice Harteveld), In: AA Files 56, London: Architectural Association Publications, 2007. *

Bibliography

* Fixsen, Anna. “The World, as Seen by Denise Scott Brown: A Photography Exhibition on View at the Venice Architecture Biennale Chronicles the Architect’s Fascination with Capturing the Beauty and Banality of Cities.” ''Architectural Record'', no. 9 (September 1, 2016): 53–54. *Zeiger, Mimi. 2017. “Denise Scott Brown.” ''Architectural Review'' 241 (1439): 67–69.

References

External links

Design Strategies of Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown

Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown tell their life stories at Web of Stories

Denise Scott Brown interview

More info on petition page mentioned in prize section, with press links

* Kamin, Blair

December 3, 2015. ''Chicago Tribune'', date accessed December 3, 2015. * *Lawson, Bryan. “Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown.” In ''Design in Mind'', 93-104. Oxford: Butterworth Architecture, 1994. {{DEFAULTSORT:Scott Brown, Denise American architects 20th-century American Jews Postmodern architects American women architects American architecture writers Architectural theoreticians Urban theorists University of Pennsylvania School of Design alumni University of California, Berkeley faculty UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs faculty Yale University faculty Architecture educators Harvard University staff University of the Witwatersrand alumni 1931 births Living people Members of the American Philosophical Society Zambian emigrants to the United States Zambian Jews American women academics 21st-century American Jews 20th-century American women 21st-century American women Recipients of the AIA Gold Medal Honorary Fellows of the American Institute of Architects