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Learning from 'Learning from Las Vegas': in conversation with Denise Scott Brown, Part 3: Research

2016-11-08T12:12:00-05:00

For the past few months, we’ve been publishing parts of an extended conversation with Denise Scott Brown. In this installment, we delve deeper into our discussion of the pedagogical methods employed in the Learning from Las Vegas studio, and what ‘learning’ should mean for architects more broadly.

Learning from 'Learning from Las Vegas' with Denise Scott Brown, Part 2: Pedagogy

2016-10-05T11:59:00-04:00

We left off our conversation with Denise Scott Brown talking about her childhood in South Africa and her early architectural influences. Now, in part 2 of our 3-part series, we discuss the unique pedagogical methods she pioneered alongside her husband, Robert Venturi.

Learning from 'Learning from Las Vegas' with Denise Scott Brown, Part I: The Foundation

2016-09-28T12:12:00-04:00

Nearly fifty years ago, Denise Scott Brown, her husband Robert Venturi, and Steven Izenour brought nine architecture students, two planning students, and two graphic design students to Las Vegas. There they studied the famous, if often derided, Las Vegas Strip, discovering a wealth of meaning in its bright signage. Their findings, published four years later in 1972, became one of the seminal texts of architectural theory and influenced an entire generation of practitioners and thinkers.