- Denise Scott Brown A.K.A née Lakofski was born October 3, 1931
- Was an American architect, planner, writer, educator, and principal of the firm Venturi, Scott Brown, and Associates in Philadelphia
- Scott Brown and her husband and partner, Robert Venturi, are regarded as among the most influential architects of the twentieth century, both through their architecture and planning, and theoretical writing and teaching
- Born to Jewish parents Simon and Phyllis (Hepker) Lakofski, Denise Lakofski had the vision from the time she was five years old that she would be an architect
- Pursuing this goal, she spent her summers working with architects, and from 1948 to 1952, studied in South Africa at the University of the Witwatersrand
- She was joined there by Robert Scott Brown, whom she had met at Witwatersrand in 1954, and graduated with a degree in architecture in 1955
- Denise Lakofski and Robert Scott Brown were married on July 21, 1955
- In 1972, with Venturi and Steven Izenour, Scott Brown wrote Learning From Las Vegas: the Forgotten Symbolism of Architectural Form
- In 1989, Scott Brown published her famous essay, “Room at the top? Sexism and the Star System in Architecture”
- The essay describes her struggle to be recognized as an equal partner of the firm, in an architecture world that was predominantly male
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