Encounters
Language: English
Published by Lars Muller Publishers, CH, 2025
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For Denise Scott Brown, who is among the most important architects of the postwar era, photography has long served as a critical medium through which to perceive, document and think about the world in which designers operate. Fascinated by the ephemeral and the everyday, Scott Brown took photographs for fun, research and teaching, and later as a component of design and planning projects. Through the lens of her Alpa camera she sought to penetrate the irreducible complexities of life around her - and to make a case for the architect and planner's role in intervening within it. Encounters presents, for the first time, an essential collection of Scott Brown's photography from the 1950s to the 1970s: the formative decades during which Scott Brown left her home city of Johannes- burg to study in London, traveled through Europe, moved to the United States, developed the pro- found interest in postwar suburbia from which Learning from Las Vegas would emerge and joined her husband Robert Venturi in practice. Accompanied by an essay on Scott Brown's conception of the ordinary, this collection of photographs offers a window into modes of thinking that continue to structure how designers perceive the world around them.…
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- Title
- Encounters
- Author
- Denise Scott Brown
- Publisher
- Lars Muller Publishers, CH
- Publication year
- 2025
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Hardback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 3037787945
- ISBN 13
- 9783037787946
For Denise Scott Brown, who is among the most important architects of the postwar era, photography has long served as a critical medium through which to perceive, document and think about the world in which designers operate. Fascinated by the ephemeral and the everyday, Scott Brown took photographs for fun, research and teaching, and later as a component of design and planning projects. Through the lens of her Alpa camera she sought to penetrate the irreducible complexities of life around her – and to make a case for the architect and planner’s role in intervening within it. Encounters presents, for the first time, an essential collection of Scott Brown’s photography from the 1950s to the 1970s: the formative decades during which Scott Brown left her home city of Johannes- burg to study in London, traveled through Europe, moved to the United States, developed the pro- found interest in postwar suburbia from which Learning from Las Vegas would emerge and joined her husband Robert Venturi in practice. Accompanied by an essay on Scott Brown’s conception of the ordinary, this collection of photographs offers a window into modes of thinking that continue to structure how designers perceive the world around them.
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About the Author
DENISE SCOTT BROWN is an architect, planner and urban designer, and a theorist, writer and educator whose projects and ideas have influenced designers and thinkers worldwide. Working in collaboration with Robert Venturi for more than fifty years, she guided the trajectory of Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates. Among the buildings she shaped are the Sainsbury Wing of the National Gallery in London and the Provincial Capitol Building for the Département de la Haute-Garônne in Toulouse, France. She has taught at various universities and authored influential books including Learning from Las Vegas (1972, with Robert Venturi and Steven Izenour); Urban Concepts (1990); and Having Words (2009).
IZZY KORNBLATT is a critic, historian and designer based in New Haven, Connecticut.
His writings have appeared in Architectural Record, where he serves as a contributing editor, as well as in other publications and in four books. He has curated exhibitions at the Athe- naeum of Philadelphia, the University of Pennsylvania and the Yale University School of Architecture. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in the history and theory of architecture at Yale.
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