50 Jahre Learning from Las Vegas Von der Geschäftigkeit Johannesburgs bis zu den Neonlichtern von Las Vegas hat Denise Scott Browns Eintreten für „unordentliche Vitalität" („messy vitality") unsere Sicht auf die Stadtlandschaft verändert. Unkonventionell, eloquent und mit tiefgründigem gesellschaftspolitischem Engagement ist Scott Brown, für die Architektur und den Urbanismus, eine der einflussreichsten Denkerinnen unserer Zeit. Anlässlich des 50. Jubiläums von Learning from Las Vegas ist Denise Scott Brown. In Other Eyes ein Porträt aus der Perspektive führender Architekturhistoriker und Praktikerinnen. Es vermittelt neue Erkenntnisse zu ihrer Ausbildung auf drei Kontinenten, ihrem multidisziplinären Unterricht und ihrem Einbezug urbaner Kräfte im architektonischen Entwurf, den Scott Brown unter dem vieldeutigen Motto „1+1>2" darlegt. <UL> <LI>Alle Texte sind Originalbeiträge u.a. von Mary McLeod, Joan Ockman, Sylvia Lavin, Stanislaus von Moos, Jacques Herzog, Robin Middleton und Denise Scott Brown </LI> <LI>Porträt einer der bedeutendsten Persönlichkeiten der zeitgenössischen Architektur </LI></UL>

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

„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: <A href="https://www.baunetz.de/meldungen/Meldungen-Zwei_Buecher_zu_Learning_from_Las_Vegas_8086112.html">https://www.baunetz.de/meldungen/Meldungen-Zwei_Buecher_zu_Learning_from_Las_Vegas_8086112.html</A> [03.01.2023]) *** „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: <A href="https://www.archpaper.com/2023/07/frida-grahn-new-anthology-sets-record-straight-denise-scott-brown-elusive-figures/">https://www.archpaper.com/2023/07/frida-grahn-new-anthology-sets-record-straight-denise-scott-brown-elusive-figures/</A> [25.07.2023]) *** „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.“ (Mark Pimlott in: <A href="https://drawingmatter.org/denise-scott-brown-in-other-eyes-portraits-of-an-architect-2022-review/">https://drawingmatter.org/denise-scott-brown-in-other-eyes-portraits-of-an-architect-2022-review/</A> [25.07.2023])

Architektur; Urbanismus; Learning from Las Vegas; Las Vegas; Robert Venturi; Architektin; Architekturgeschichte; Architekturtheorie; Venturi

urbanism; architecture; Learning from Las Vegas; history of architecture; theory of architecture; female architect; Robert Venturi

Individual architects and architectural firms

Portraits of an Architect

Denise Scott Brown 
In Other Eyes

Frida Grahn, Università della Svizzera italiana, Mendrisio

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  

50 years Learning from Las Vegas  From the bustle of Johannesburg to the neon of Las Vegas, Denise Scott Brown’s advocacy for "messy vitalit

Denise Scott Brown In Other Eyes

Portraits of an Architect

Edited by: Frida Grahn

Volume 176 in the series Bauwelt Fundamente