EAN: 9783037787946

ENCOUNTERS

For Denise Scott Brown  who is among the most important architects of the postwar era 
photography has long served as a critical medium through which to perceive  document and think
about the world in which designers operate. Fascinated by the ephemeral and the everyday  Scott
Brown took photographs for fun  research and teaching  and later as a component of design and
planning projects. Through the lens of her Alpa camera she sought to penetrate the irreducible
complexities of life around her - and to make a case for the architect and planner's role in
intervening within it.   "Encounters" for the first time presents an essential collection of
Scott Brown's photography from the 1950s to the 1970s: focused on the formative decades during
which Scott Brown departed her childhood home of Johannesburg to study in London  traveled
through Europe  moved to the United States  developed the profound interest in postwar suburbia
from which Learning from Las Vegas would emerge and joined her husband Robert Venturi in
practice.   Moving thematically rather than sequentially through Scott Brown's photographic
oeuvre  "Encounters" opens up new ways of reading this body of work  presenting it less as a
continuous historical record than as the product of a careful and studied practice of
observation. Chosen in collaboration between Denise Scott Brown and Izzy Kornblatt and
accompanied by an essay on Scott Brown's conception of the ordinary  this collection of
photographs offers a window into modes of thinking that continue to structure how designers
perceive the world around them.

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