Denise Scott Brown 
In Other Eyes: Portraits of an Architect

Published by Birkhäuser 2022

Denise Scott Brown In Other Eyes

Portraits of an Architect

Edited by: Frida Grahn

Volume 176 in the series Bauwelt Fundamente

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783035626254

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50 years Learning from Las Vegas

From the bustle of Johannesburg to the neon of Las Vegas, Denise Scott Brown’s advocacy for "messy vitality" has transformed the way we look at the urban landscape. Unconventional, eloquent, and with a profound sociopolitical message, Scott Brown is one of our era’s most influential thinkers on architecture and urbanism.

The anthology Denise Scott Brown. In Other Eyes – marking the 50th anniversary of the seminal treatise Learning from Las Vegas – paints a portrait of Scott Brown as seen through the eyes of leading architectural historians and practitioners. It features new scholarship on　her education on three continents, her multidisciplinary teaching, and her use of urban patterns and forces as tools for architectural design – a practice documented in a new comment by Scott Brown, noting that sometimes "1+1>2."

With contributions by Mary McLeod, Joan Ockman, Sylvia Lavin, Stanislaus von Moos, Jacques Herzog, Robin Middleton, and Denise Scott Brown, among others
A comprehensive portrait of one of contemporary architecture’s most significant personalities

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Frida Grahn, Università della Svizzera italiana, Mendrisio

Reviews

„Frida Grahn möchte mit dem von ihr herausgegebenen Band Denise Scott Brown In Other Eyes der Architektin endlich die wissenschaftliche Aufmerksamkeit zuteil werden lassen, die man ihr bis dato vorenthalten hat.“ (Achim Reese in: https://www.baunetz.de/meldungen/Meldungen-Zwei_Buecher_zu_Learning_from_Las_Vegas_8086112.html [03.01.2023])

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„Frida Grahn’s Denise Scott Brown In Other Eyes is a bold feat of scholarship that contextualizes Denise Scott Brown’s teaching, writing, design philosophy, and activism with vignettes […] in a way that no other book has to date.“ (Dan Roche in: https://www.archpaper.com/2023/07/frida-grahn-new-anthology-sets-record-straight-denise-scott-brown-elusive-figures/ [25.07.2023])

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„Denise Scott Brown In Other Eyes: Portraits of an Architect is a welcome and necessary publication. Its overview of the ideas and career of Denise Scott Brown establishes the rich foundations of her work in education, urban planning, and architecture, as informed by her attentions to the city as it is lived in, used, and experienced.“ (Mark Pimlott in: https://drawingmatter.org/denise-scott-brown-in-other-eyes-portraits-of-an-architect-2022-review/ [25.07.2023])

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	1
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	5
Preface Mary McLeod Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	9
Introduction: Portraits of an Architect Frida Grahn Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	13
Part I 1950s: Learning
On the Outside Looking Around: “Mine is an African View of Las Vegas” Craig Lee Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	22
Recollections I: Man Made Johannesburg Robin Middleton and Mary McLeod Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	48
Encountering Architectural History in 1950s London Andrew Leach Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	58
The Function of Functionalism for Denise Scott Brown Denise Costanzo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	70
Recollections II: The Mutual Experience—in Giuseppe Vaccaro’s Office in Rome Carolina Vaccaro Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	88
Denise Scott Brown’s Nonjudgmental Perspective: Cross-Fertilization between Urban Sociology and Architecture Marianna Charitonidou Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	98
Part II 1960s: Teaching
Teaching “Determinants of Urban Form” at the University of Pennsylvania, 1960–1964 Lee Ann Custer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	108
Recollections III: Learning from Denise Scott Brown and Paul Davidoff James Yellin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	124
Positioning Denise Scott Brown: Los Angeles, 1965–1966 Sylvia Lavin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	133
With Lots of Love: South Street, 1968–1972 Sarah Moses Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	156
Learning from Co-op City, or What Price Aesthetics? Joan Ockman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	166
On Camp, Revolutionariness, and Architecture Valéry Didelon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	173
“Strange” Appearances: On Pop Art, Hamburgers, and Urbanists Katherine Smith Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	182
Part III 1970s –2020s: Designing
Recollections IV: Denise and Bob on My Mind Inès Lamunière Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	198
“Make Little Plans”: Scott Brown at the Fiftieth Anniversary of CIAM Frida Grahn Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	206
Exile and Redemption: Denise Scott Brown, Josef Frank, and the Meanings of Postmodernism Christopher Long Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	216
Context I: Looking at the Real World. Interview with Jacques Herzog Jacques Herzog and Frida Grahn Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	225
The Rule of Flux. Notes on Denise Scott Brown and Venice Stanislaus von Moos Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	229
Context II: On Homelessness, Housing, and Hospices Hilary Sample Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	246
Evidently—On “Learning from Everything” Aron Vinegar Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	250
Recollections V: Exploring Denise Scott Brown’s Methods Françoise Blanc Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	256
Epilogue
Evidently—On “Learning from Everything” Denise Scott Brown Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	270
“So You’d Like To See The World?” Jeremy Eric Tenenbaum and Denise Scott Brown Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	289
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	296
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	308
Image Credits Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	310

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: Birkhäuser
Pages
- Main content: 256
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 100
Keywords: urbanism; architecture; Learning from Las Vegas; history of architecture; theory of architecture; female architect; Robert Venturi

eBook

Published: October 24, 2022
ISBN: 9783035626254

Paperback

Published: October 24, 2022
ISBN: 9783035626247