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Postmodern pioneer: Manga biography celebrates Denise Scott Brown

2021-02-04T12:38:00-05:00

I had to experience European buildings through photos. For me, photography became a critical way to understand architecture...

The Vilcek Foundation has partnered with artist and illustrator Hiroki Otsuka to create a series of manga – graphic comics in the Japanese tradition – about our prizewinners. The first manga centers the life and work of Denise Scott Brown, recipient of the 2007 Vilcek Prize in Architecture. “Denise Scott Brown is one of the most influential American architects of the twentieth century. A pioneer of postmodernist thinking, her designs are rooted in a highly theoretical framework,” says Vilcek Foundation President Rick Kinsel. “We are delighted with the way Hiroki captured these elements of Denise’s life and work for this manga.”

Architect Robert Venturi dies at age 93

2018-09-19T16:03:00-04:00

From VSBA Architects:

Trailblazing architect, and 1991 Pritzker winner, Robert Venturi has passed away on Tuesday at the age of 93. He is survived by his wife and life-long business partner Denise Scott Brown.

Their firm Venturi Scott Brown Associates, now VSBA Architects & Planners based in Philadelphia, has published a brief statement:

Robert Venturi, one of the world’s leading architects, has died at the age of 93. He passed away peacefully at home on Tuesday after a short illness.

An expanded statement about Bob’s incredible life will be coming in the next few days. For now, Denise Scott Brown and James Venturi have asked that we respect their wishes for privacy while they grieve.

All of us at VSBA are heartbroken. Viva Bob.

Call for Denise Scott Brown to be given Pritzker recognition

2013-03-25T17:18:00-04:00

In a speech prepared for the AJ Women in Architecture lunch, Scott Brown called on her role in Robert Venturi’s 1991 win to be acknowledged retrospectively. Describing it as a ‘very sad’ situation, she said: ‘They owe me not a Pritzker Prize but a Pritzker inclusion ceremony. Let’s salute the notion of joint creativity.’

Editor's Picks #275

2012-07-31T01:01:00-04:00

Orhan Ayyüce featured recent efforts towards preservation, by new owner Michael Chapman who commissioned Barry Milofsky of M2A Architects to design the restoration, to The Lukens House, in Soriano's Glen Lukens House: Back to Life and Happy. Therein he asserted "It is important to add here that Soriano was the architect whom photographer Julius Shulman and his wife selected to design their home. As to why, Mr. Shulman did tell me in an unpublished interview that the decision to hire Mr. Soriano was made because ‘he loved life!’ after drinking few bottles of wine Mr. Soriano brought with him to the empty lot Shulmans bought below Mulholland Drive."

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Mas Context highlighted the work of David Yoon, a writer, designer, photographer, and self-confessed urban planning geek living in Los Angeles, who started documenting existing streets of Los Angeles and narrowing them to see the effects that his manipulations had on the city. Eric Chavkin claimed "PHOTOSHOP URBANISM This is all ab...

Robert Venturi retires, and firm renames

2012-07-26T14:45:00-04:00

Robert Venturi, who along with his wife Denise Scott Brown formed one of Philadelphia’s best known architectural firms, has retired and the firm known as Venturi Scott Brown and Associates Inc. has been renamed VSBA.

Improper Hero of Architecture

2011-07-25T18:27:00-04:00

Modernism is about space, post modernism is about communication, you should do what turns you on" - Robert Venturi

After saying, "my understanding of post modernism was pretty shallow," film maker John Thornton, a.k.a Rusty Scupperton, finds out what Robert Venturi is all about in this 2 parts video.