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
