Fur Denise Scott Brown, eine der bedeutendsten Architektinnen der Nachkriegszeit, ist die Fotografie seit Langem ein zentrales Medium um die Welt, in der Designer:innen arbeiten, wahrzunehmen, zu dokumentieren und zu refl ektieren. Fasziniert vom Ephemeren und Allt.glichen, fotografi erte Scott Brown zum Spass, zu Forschungs- und Lehrzwecken und später als Bestandteil von Design- und Planungsprojekten. Durch das Objektiv ihrer Alpa-Kamera versucht sie, die Komplexitäten des Lebens um sie herum zu dokumentieren und ein Plädoyer fur die Rolle der Architektin und Planerin darin zu halten. «Encounters» präsentiert erstmals eine essenzielle Sammlung von Scott Browns Fotografien aus den 1950er- bis 1970er-Jahren die prägenden Jahrzehnte, in denen Scott Brown ihre Heimat in Johannesburg verliess, um in London zu studieren; durch Europa reiste; in die USA zog; ihr tiefgreifendes Interesse an der Nachkriegsvorstadt entwickelte, aus dem auch «Learning from Las Vegas» hervorging, und gemeinsam mit ihrem Ehemann Robert Venturi arbeitete. Begleitet von einem Essay uber Scott Browns Auffassung des Allt.glichen bietet diese Fotosammlung einen Einblick in die Denkweisen, die bis heute prägen, wie Designer:innen die Welt um sich herum wahrnehmen.

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Izzy Kornblatt is a critic, historian and designer based in New Haven, Connecticut. His writings have appeared in Architectural Record, where he serves as a contributing editor, as well as in other publications including the Architectural Review and the New York Review of Architecture, and in four books. He has completed several independent design projects and curated exhibitions at the Athenaeum of Philadelphia, the University of Pennsylvania and the Yale University School of Architecture. Born in Massachusetts, he studied at Swarthmore College, National Taiwan University and the Harvard Graduate School of Design. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in the history and theory of architecture at Yale. Denise Scott Brown is an architect, planner and urban designer and a theorist, writer and educator whose projects and ideas have influenced designers and thinkers worldwide. Working in collaboration with Robert Venturi for more than fifty years, she has guided the trajectory of Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates, serving as principal-in-charge of urban planning, urban design and campus planning, and playing leading roles in a number of the firm's building designs. Scott Brown led planning projects for South Street and Old City in Philadelphia, Miami Beach and Memphis, as well as the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Michigan and Tsinghua University. Among the buildings she shaped are the Sainsbury Wing of the National Gallery in London and the Département de la Haute-Garonne provincial capitol building in Toulouse, France.Born in 1931 in what is now Zambia, Scott Brown grew up in Johannesburg and attended the University of the Witwatersrand before departing South Africa for London, where she received a degree from the Architectural Association, and then the United States, where she received master's degrees in architecture and planning from the University of Pennsylvania. She has taught at the University of Pennsylvania; the University of California, Los Angeles; the University of California, Berkeley; and Yale University, among other institutions; and authored noted books including Learning from Las Vegas (1972, with Robert Venturi and Steven Izenour); Urban Concepts (1990); and Having Words (2009). A recipient of honorary degrees from fourteen institutions, Scott Brown is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society, and an International Fellow of the Royal Institute of British Architects. Among the countless prizes she has received is the AIA Gold Medal, which she and Venturi received jointly in 2015, the first time the prize was given to more than one architect.