The designer, scholar, and badass is getting her due Congratulations are in order: Denise Scott Brown was announced this year?s winner of the Jane Drew Prize for Women in Architecture, which is jointly bestowed by The Architect?s Journal (AJ) and The Architectural Review.
Scott Brown?s recognition comes four years after a firestorm about her lack of recognition from the Pritzker Prize committee, who awarded her husband, architect Robert Venturi, the prestigious prize in 1991 without acknowledging her contributions to the couple?s practice, Venturi Scott Brown and Associates. In a speech in 2013, Scott Brown remarked that it was time to ?salute the notion of joint creativity.?
A petition, organized by Women in Design, a student organization at Harvard?s Graduate School of Design, circulated in 2013 for just such a salute, garnering over 20,000 signatures, including from Robert Venturi and OMA founder Rem Koolhaas.
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The Vanna Venturi House outside Philadelphia, designed by Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates, is widely considered the preeminent example of American Postmodern architecture.

Addressing news of her win with the AJ, Scott Brown said, ?I?m a bit punch drunk on the whole subject of prizes as you can imagine given my history with them.?
In its citation, the Jane Drew Prize jury acknowledged that an online campaign to have the Pritzker Prize committee recognize Scott Brown?s work in a substantive way helped inform their ch...