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Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown

Pritzker Architecture Prize Winners • Documentary, Special Interest, 01-Jan-1987

Driven by their mutual admiration of classical architecture, Robert Venturi and Denise Scott-Brown have worked together to create a space of unique post-Modernist construction. Filmed during the design and realization of the Sainsbury extension to the National Gallery in London, the husband and wife team discuss their past work and the shared principles that led to their precise, historically inspired approach to modern architecture.

Tags
"Complexity and Contradiction" (book), "Learning From Las Vegas" (book), Sainsbury Wing (National Gallery), Alien Memorial Art Museum (Oberlin, Ohio), Guild House, Wu Hall, Thomas Laboratory, post modernism, modernism, urbanism, space, composition, Mannerist period, Michaelangelo, Rome, Western architecture, juxtaposition, classicism, Renaissance, Leonardo da Vinci, modern aesthetic, Elizabethan and Gothic style, Mies van der Rohe
Cast
Robert Venturi Self
Denise Scott-Brown Self
Martin Pawley Self
Alvin Boyarsky Self
Philip Finkelpearl Self
Colin Amery Self
Gavin Stamp Self
Jules Lubbock Self
Sir John Sainsbury Self
Vincent Scully Self
Prince Charles of Wales Self
Crew
Michael Blackwood director
Michael Blackwood producer
Wibke von Bonin producer
Leslie Megahey producer

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