Denise Scott Brown

Denise Scott Brown, Venturi married Denise (nee Denise Lakofski, born October 3, 1931 in Nkana, Zambia ) is an important representative of postmodernism in architecture, especially as a theorist and publicist. Denise Scott Brown and her husband and partner, Robert Venturi, are among the most influential architects of the 20th century.

Life

Denise is the daughter of Jewish parents, Simon and Phyllis Lakofski Hepker. Between 1948 and 1952 she studied at the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, where she met her future husband, Robert Scott Brown met her. In 1952 Lakofski traveled to London and continued her education at the Architectural Association School of Architecture and graduated three years later graduated with a degree in architecture successfully. On July 21, 1955 Denise Lakofski married in London Robert Scott Brown, the couple spent the next three years working and traveling in Europe. 1958, the couple went to Philadelphia to study at the University of Pennsylvania. A year later, her husband died in a car accident. In 1960, she received her master's degree in urban planning and has been a lecturer at the university. At a meeting in the faculty she met the architect Robert Venturi ( b. 1925 ).

In the next few years Scott Brown taught at the University of California at Berkeley, Co - Chair of the Urban Design program was at the University of California ( UCLA) in Los Angeles, and at Yale University in New Haven. In the late 1960s she met Venturi again, and they were married on July 23, 1967 in Santa Monica. The marriage was a son, James Venturi forth. Together with his partner John Rauch Venturi opened in 1964 in Philadelphia, an architectural firm in 1967 was added Denise Scott Brown, Steven and David Izenour Vaughum. Under the name of Venturi, Rauch & Scott Brown numerous prestigious architectural projects were realized in subsequent years, such as the Benjamin Franklin Memorial (1972 ) and the Humanities Building and Social Sciences Building of the State University of New York. In 1986, we gave them the design of the extension of the National Gallery in London, for which they presented designs in the style of post-modern classicism. In several books, the couple Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown has the thinking and way of looking at architecture mitverändert and made ​​a significant contribution to architectural theory.

Award and Honors

  • 2007 Design Mind Award
  • 2007 Cooper - Hewitt National Design Awards
  • 2007 Athena Award
  • 2002 Vincent J. Scully price
  • 1997 Honorary Membership in the Association of German Architects BDA
  • 1996 Topaz Medal
  • 1992 National Medal of Arts
  • 1985 AIA Firm Award
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