Oliver Wainwright   Anabelle Selldorf is carrying out the revamp of the iconic work of Venturi and Scott Brown.

There are buildings that are works of eloquent architecture, but in the extension of the National Gallery, the walls have spoken. Literally. Turning its back on Trafalgar Squqre, what we know as the Sainsbury Wing – because of the generous donation r

The new head of the United Kingdom is an advocate of traditional architecture and has promoted it in his estates in Cornwall through a development, Poundbury, with Léon Krier as principal advisor. During his time as Prince of Wales he wrote texts in

The Guardian   Rowan Moore   Born in controversy, the National Gallery wing was a lesson in throwing away the architects’ rulebook. Now plans to remodel it threaten its quirky splendour. The Sainsbury Wing of the National Gallery in London, tucked into a corner of Trafalgar Squa

Vilcek Foundation   The Vilcek Foundation has partnered with artist and illustrator Hiroki Otsuka to create a series of manga – graphic comics in the Japanese tradition – about our prizewinners. The first manga centers the life and work of Denise Scott Brown, recipient

Denise Scott Brown Denise Scott Brown has won the Soane Medal, awarded annually by the Sir John Soane Museum to “architects who have made a major contribution to their field, through their built work, through education, history and theory,” and who h

AIA   The American Institute of Architects (AIA) is honoring the Sainsbury Wing at the National Gallery in London— designed by Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates (VSBA)—with its 25 Year Award. AIA's Twenty-five Year Award is conferred on a building that h

On view through 18 March at the Architekturzentrum of Vienna is a monographic exhibition on the American architect, urban planner, and writer Denise Scott Brown, who was born in 1931 in Nkana (Zambia). The retrospective includes her childhood in Afri

The partners Denise Scott Brown and Robert Venturi have won the AIA Gold Medal, becoming the first duo ever to receive an award heretofore reserved for individual architects. The prestigious medal is conferred annually by the Board of Directors of th

María Cifuentes   El departamento de publicaciones de la Architectural Association londinense ha reunido en un librito de bolsillo, modesto pero impecablemente editado, doce ensayos de una de sus antiguas alumnas, la arquitecta, urbanista y pensadora Denise Scott Brow

Magda Anglès   En una época en la que todo lo que podemos consumir está disponible ‘en porciones’, ‘en versiones reducidas’ o ‘listo para llevar’ (y no sólo hablamos de los fabulosos minisets que nos esperan en las habitaciones de hoteles, las minúsculas y a veces

Stanislaus von Moos   Quien conozca Las Vegas de las películas de los años setenta o del polémico tratado arquitectónico Aprendiendo de Las Vegas, de Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown y Steven Izenour (1972), hoy se sorprendería de cómo ha cambiado. Por supuesto, se sigu

El País   Luis Fernández-Galiano   The earthquake of Lisbon brought on Pombal’s Baixa and the Jesuit decline. Once the tears and the streets dry up, the coasts devastated by the seaquake of Aceh will surface again with reconstructed huts for tattooed surfers and theme villages for sex

Luis Fernández-Galiano   Desde que el historicismo posmoderno sacó la tratadística del armario, la teoría clásica de la arquitectura ha conocido una extensa revisión, manifiesta en la edición crítica de facsímiles o la aparición de obras sintéticas. La última es este compact

François Chaslin   Content, la última obra de Rem Koolhaas, ha aparecido con retraso respecto a la exposición del mismo título que se inauguró el pasado otoño en la Neue Nationalgalerie de Berlín, y que ahora puede verse en la Kunsthal de Rotterdam. Es un libro extraño

Luis Fernández-Galiano   The McDonaldizacion of the world does not exclude cultivated architecture, as the work of Venturi shows well. Together with Scott Brown, he has taught us to look at Las Vegas, Disney or Atlantic City in a different way, and his scholarly populism has

Emilio Tuñón   «Mejor sería que se admitiera de una vez la necesidad y que se aplicara la decoración allí donde se precisa, no en la forma que lo hicieron los victorianos sino, para ajustarnos a nuestros tiempos, con la misma facilidad que se pegan los anuncios a s

Rem Koolhaas. Descubrí Aprendiendo de Las Vegas en 1972, mientras estudiaba en Cornell. El libro fue para mí a la vez fuente de inspiración y de amenaza: constituía un manifiesto por el cambio de la esencia al signo, justo cuando yo empezaba a descif

Among all living American architects, only two – Frank Gehry and Robert Venturi – now seem unquestionably assured of a permanent place in the history of their art form. Yet the question remains: What will they be remembered for? Gehry’s idiosyncratic

Martin Filler   In Henry R. Luce’s hortatory 1941 editorial “The American Century,” which appeared in his Life magazine a few months before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor drew the United States into World War II, the publisher urged his countrymen to abandon th

Jeremy Eric Tenenbaum   Zurich  2018  
Park Books   - 168 Pages 

Martino Stierli Hilar Stadler Peter Fischli   Images from the Archive of Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown

Denise Scott Brown   London  2010  
AA Publications - Architectural Association Publications   - 160 Pages 

Robert Venturi Denise Scott Brown   Cambridge  2004  
Harvard University Press   - 252 Pages 

Rem Koolhaas   Colonia  2004  
Taschen   - 544 Pages 

Fil Hearn   Cambridge (Mass)  2003  
MIT Press   - 356 Pages