Denise Scott Brown

Denise Scott Brown is best known as part of one of the most acclaimed architectural partnerships in modern architectural history, Denise Scott Brown & Robert Venturi. Together with Venturi, she ran the firm Venturi, Scott Brown & Associates (VSBA). Their architectural and urban planning designs, theories and publications caused a revolution in the world of architecture. Their most famous theoretical work, co-authored with Steven Izenour, Learning from Las Vegas, became a global phenomenon that marked the 20th century. Scott Brown & Venturi were also a married couple. However, in the traditional male-dominated architectural world, men were automatically put in leadership positions while the role of women was always underplayed, although they worked in equal partnership and made the same contribution. The role of Denise Scott Brown in joint projects, in the eyes of the public, was for decades diminished, while Venturi was brought to the forefront and celebrated as a genius. She never received due recognition for her work.
This book is entirely dedicated to Denise Scott Brown and gives her the credit she deserves. It informs readers about her life, analyzes her projects in both architecture and urban planning, and offers a better understanding of her theories. The seven chapters provide a comprehensive insight into the world of legendary Denise and complete the knowledge necessary to understand her as a true and authentic diva of architecture, an innovative urban planner, theorist and passionate professor. Chapter 8 is a comprehensive conclusion that rounds off the monograph through a shorter review of numerous topics covered in the previous chapters. At the very beginning of the book is a letter that Denise wrote to the author. Her words are an authentic testimony of her life after 1967. The book is richly illustrated with a total of 274 photographs, urban planning layouts and various project illustrations.

Biljana Arandelovic is a Guest Researcher at the Institute for Urban and Regional Research (ISR) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (OEAW), in Vienna. She holds a Ph.D. in architecture from the Graz University of Technology (TU Graz, 2008) and was a Postdoc Research Fellow (2011-2012) at the Universität der Künste Berlin (UdK Berlin), at the Institute for History and Theory of Design. Arandelovic was also a Guest Researcher at the ASK Centre for Research on Management and Economics of Arts and Culture Institutions at Bocconi University (Milan). Arandelovic has taught contemporary architecture at the Faculty of Applied Arts at the University of Arts Belgrade (Serbia), art and the city in the Department of Architecture, Unitec Institute of Technology (Auckland, New Zealand), and at Art and the City summer schools in Vienna and Graz (2013-2015). She teaches Contemporary architecture, Art and architecture, and Serbian architecture in the 20th century at the University of Niš.

 

Biljana Arandelovic worked as an artist in Graz from 2005 to 2011, represented by Marion Fischer art moments Gallery. Arandelovic has authored the following books: Contemporary architecture and its development from the end of the 19th century to the present day (Službeni glasnik, 2022), Belgrade. The 21st Century Metropolis of Southeast Europe (Springer, 2020), Public Art and Urban Memorials in Berlin (Springer, 2018), and Visual Impressions: Architecture and Art in Public Space in Graz (Leykam, 2012).