Denise Scott Brown (Urban Planner)
Aerial view of the Seattle Art Museum #2, Seattle, 2018; from Google Maps/Street View
Exterior view of the Seattle Art Museum #2, looking northeast, Seattle, 2018; from Google Maps/Street View
Interior view of the Art Ladder, Seattle, 2007; from Wikimedia Commons, photo by Joe Mabel
Postcard view of the Ellen Brown Scripps House #2, La Jolla, San Diego, CA, c. 1920. From Wikimedia Commons
Female, South Africa/US, born 1931-10-03
Associated with the firms network
Venturi, Rauch and Scott Brown, Architects and Planners; Venturi, Scott Brown, and Associates, Architects and Planners
Partner, Venturi, Rauch and Scott Brown, Architects, Philadelphia, PA, 1967-1989. She became the partner in charge of planning at Venturi, Rauch and Scott Brown in 1969.
Partner, Venturi and Scott Brown Associates, Philadelphia, PA, 1989- .
Instructor, Yale University, New Havent, CT, 2003.
University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, 1948 - 1952.
Architectural degree, Architectural Association School of Architecture (AA), London, England, 1955.
Master's, City Planning, University of Pennsylvania (Penn), Philadelphia, PA, 1958-1960.
She married twice. She first wed Robert Scott Brown (d. 1959) on 07/21/1955.
Denise Scott Brown married Robert Charles Venturi (1925-2018) on 07/23/1967 in Santa Monica, CA.
She and Venturi had one son, James Venturi.
Biographical Notes
Her original surname was "Lakofski."
California City Master Plan Project
California City Office Building Project
Scripps, Ellen Browning, House #2, La Jolla, San Diego, CA 1916 San Diego
Seattle Art Museum (SAM) #2, Downtown, Seattle, WA 1991 Seattle WA
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), MacDonald, Gordon and Virginia, Medical Research Laboratory, Westwood, Los Angeles, CA 1986 Los Angeles CA
Architecture for Art American Art Museums 1938-2008, 170-173, 2004. Farr, Sheila, "The history of museums: a history of our times", Seattle Times,
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