Denise Scott Brown Quotes

• Architecture can't force people to connect, it can only plan the crossing points, remove barriers, and make the meeting places useful and attractive.

  Denise Scott Brown

  People, Planning, Architecture

  Interview with Andrea Tamas, www.archdaily.com. August 2009.

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• At about five I knew I was going to be an architect because my mother had studied architecture. I thought it was women's work. I had a proprietary feeling about architecture. I could own it because my mother owned it.

  Denise Scott Brown

  Mother, Feelings, Architecture

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• In the 1960s, Robert Venturi and I played a game we called ‘I can like something worse than you can like.’

  Denise Scott Brown

  Games, 1960s, Like Something

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• Faced with unmeasurables, people steer their way by magic. Before the invention of navigational instruments, a beautiful lady was carved on the prow of the boat to help sailors cross the ocean; and architects, grappling with the intangibles of design, select a guru whose work gives them personal help in areas where there are few rules to follow. The guru, as architectural father-figure, is subject to intense hate and love; either way, the relationship is personal, and necessarily one-to-one.

  Denise Scott Brown

  People, Magic, Way

  "Room at the Top? Sexism and the Star System in Architecture". Essay by Denise Scott Brown, in "Architecture: A Place for Women", book edited by Ellen Perry Berkeley and Matilda McQuaid, www.mascontext.com. 1989.

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• We have no sociology of architecture. Architects are unaccustomed to social analysis and mistrust it; sociologists have fatter fish to fry.

  Denise Scott Brown

  Analysis, Architecture, Sociology

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• Nobody believes that domestic violence kills and nobody believes it is detrimental to children. This world has got to wake up. To me, if there is domestic violence, if the children see it or hear it, that to me is detrimental. Batterers should not have rights to children.

  Denise Scott Brown

  Children, Believe, Rights

  "In their own words". www.cnn.com. December 20, 1996.

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