THE WORK OF DENISE SCOTT BROWN AND ROBERT VENTURI UP TO / IN THE PERIOD OF LEARNING FROM LAS VEGAS
We, as architects, have pictures in our heads, around ourselves and we produce them. Can these images, which can be found, among other things, in our architectural work, convey the present as well as the historical?
Today, the widespread use of digital media and tools, such as smart-phones, creates more and more images – a veritable flood of images, but also a democratisation of image creation. This frees the limitations of analogueue media and at the same time creates a mass production of images.
A reflection of the images, which can influence architectural work with present or historical impulses, is usually missed out in the mass. Therefore, a selective creation of images and methodical implementation of them can control and induce an influence on the creative process.
This academic research examines the extent to which Scott Brown and Venturi draw on historical as well as on contemporary image references? Are these reflected in their architectural creative process? If so, which methodological phases could they have gone through or how did these visual references come about?
*Photograph by Denise Scott Brown, The Strip, Las Vegas, 1968.
MASTER | 4TH SEMESTER | SUMMER 2020
SEMINAR | CHAIR FOR THE HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN / THEORY OF ARCHITECTURE
