ENCOUNTERS: DENISE SCOTT BROWN

The first publication to the perceptive photographic oeuvre of one of the most important postwar architects and co author of the influential Learning from Las Vegas.  Focusing 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, met her partner Robert Venturi and eventually developed the profound interest in postwar suburbia from which her most famous works would emerge.  Moving thematically rather than sequentially through the Scott Brown 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. 434 pages