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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
"Through her writing, teaching, and designs, Scott Brown has touched generations of architects and urbanists. With this publication, her story will inspire many more to see beyond their initial perceptions and appreciate everyday design as a testament to popular culture." www.madamearchitect.org (Kate Mazade /
„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.“„Denise Scott Brown In Other Eyes does a good job of setting the record straight. It reveals a multidimensional woman enmeshed in the New Left politics of her time who cared deeply for the inner city working class, and little for what her critics had to say […]“„To fully render her subject, Grahn’s kaleidoscopic bricolage oscillates between the densely theoretical and the deeply personal. But perhaps Grahn’s greatest achievement is showing how truly heroic Scott Brown is, while resisting the tendency to lionize her.“ (www.archpaper.com / July 2023)
„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.“„However, this book demonstrates through a series of portraits of Scott Brown, the specific character, originality, and relevance of her contribution from the period of her early development, through her work as an educator bridging the work of architecture and urban planning, and then in her practice with Venturi and Rauch, which finally became Venturi Scott Brown Architects. And it is about time.“„The book achieves the promise of its title. It portrays Scott Brown through the eyes of others, who speak in a chorus of voices. In doing so, it is varyingly objective and personal and frequently moving, particularly in the portraits made by those who have worked with her, been taught by her, or know her.“ (www.drawingmatter.org)