Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture
First published in 1966, and since translated into 16 languages, this remarkable book has become an essential document of architectural literature. A “gentle manifesto for a nonstraightforward...
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Learning from Las Vegas: The Forgotten Symbolism of Architectural Form
Learning from Las Vegas created a healthy controversy on its appearance in 1972, calling for architects to be more receptive to the tastes and values of “common” people and less immodest in their...
View ArticleRobert Venturi joins call for Pritzker to recognise Denise Scott Brown
Pritzker Prize-winning architect Robert Venturi is backing a campaign calling for his 1991 accolade to be retrospectively shared with his wife and partner Denise Scott Brown. Venturi follows a string...
View ArticleArchitect Interview With Denise Scott Brown
The co-founder of Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates (now VSBA) talks to ARCHITECT about a petition to put her name on the 1991 Pritzer Architecture Prize, about sexism in architecture, and about her...
View ArticleMedia Ratchets Up the Pressure on Pritzker Prize Jury
In the three weeks since a pair of students at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design launched a petition demanding some glory for architect Denise Scott Brown, FAIA, a debate that has...
View ArticleLACK OF DIVERSITY LIMITS ARCHITECTURE: Sam Lubell on architecture’s struggle...
Much has been made in recent weeks about the petition led by students at the Harvard Graduate School of Design to add Denise Scott Brown’s name to the Pritzker prize, which her husband Robert Venturi...
View Article10 Buildings that Changed America
10 Buildings that Changed America presents 10 trend-setting works of architecture that have shaped and inspired our American landscape. These aren’t just historic structures by famous architects. These...
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