Oral history interview with Denise Scott Brown
odd: label: General
content: Originally recorded on 10 sound cassette. Reformatted in 2010 as 19 digital wav files. Duration is 13 hr., 45 min.
name: label: Interviewee
content: Scott Brown, Denise, 1931-
label: Interviewer
content: Reed, Peter
label: Names
content: Architectural Association (Great Britain) -- Students
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content: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
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content: National Gallery (Great Britain)
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content: University of Pennsylvania -- Faculty
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content: University of Pennsylvania -- Students
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content: Venturi Scott Brown and Associates
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content: Venturi, Rauch, and Scott Brown
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content: Kahn, Louis I., 1901-1974
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content: Korn, Arthur, 1891-
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content: Scott Brown, Robert
label: Names
content: Venturi, Robert
topic: label: Topic
content: Architecture -- Study and teaching
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content: Architecture, Modern -- 20th century -- United States
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content: Architecture, Postmodern -- United States
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content: City planning
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content: Women architects
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content: Architects -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Interviews
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: This interview is part of the Archives of American Art Oral History Program, started in 1958 to document the history of the visual arts in the United States, primarily through interviews with artists, historians, dealers, critics and administrators.
creator: label: Interviewee
content: Scott Brown, Denise, 1931-
label: Interviewer
content: Reed, Peter
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Denise Scott Brown (1931- ) is an architect of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
function: label: Function
content: Architectural firms -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 188 Pages (Transcript)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1990 October 25-1991 November 9
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.scottb90
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content: Collection descriptions
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content: Archival materials
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content: Pages
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content: Sound recordings
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content: Interviews
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: Transcript is available on the Archives of American Art's website.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Sound recordings
label: Genre/Form
content: Interviews
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: An interview of Denise Scott Brown conducted 1990 October 25-1991 November 9, by Peter Reed, for the Archives of American Art.
label: Scope and Contents
content: Scott Brown discusses her family background and growing up in South Africa; her education at the University of Witwatersrand, the Architectural Association, London, a summer school in Venice, sponsored by Congres Internationale d'Architecture Moderne, and the University of Pennsylvania, recalling some of her teachers (including Arthur Korn and Louis Kahn); her first husband, Robert Scott Brown, and their travels throughout Europe and experiences in Pennsylvania; her teaching philosophy and experiences at the University of Pennsylvania, Yale, Harvard, UCLA, and Berkeley; the architecture program at Penn from her perspective as a student and as a member of the faculty; meeting Robert Venturi, their work together, the firm and the difficulties encountered in the 1970s and 1980s, some of their projects such as the National Gallery, London, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and planning work; publications such as "Complexity and Contradiction," "Urban concepts," "Worm's Eye View," and "Learning from Las Vegas;" postmodern architecture; critics; and her experiences as a woman in the field.