Denise Scott Brown: Difference between revisions

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.{{Citation needed|date=March 2020}} Pursuing this goal, she spent her summers working with architects, and from 1948 to 1952, after attending [[Kingsmead College]],<ref>{{cite web | url =http://www.ushistory.org/carpentershall/company/more/dreams.htm | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191106103244/http://www.ushistory.org/carpentershall/company/more/dreams.htm|title =Dreams & Themes with Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown, November 19, 2005 | last =Shoemaker | first =Jay | date =November 19, 2005 | website =ushistory.org | publisher =Carpenters' Hall |archive-date=2019-11-06 |access-date =2019-11-06 }}</ref> studied in [[South Africa]] at the [[University of the Witwatersrand]]. She briefly entered [[liberal politics]], but was frustrated by the lack of acceptance of women in the field. Lakofski traveled to [[London]] in 1952, working for the [[Modernist architecture|modernist]] architect [[Frederick Gibberd]]. She continued her education there, winning admission to the [[Architectural Association School of Architecture]] to learn “useful skills in the building of a just South Africa,” within an intellectually rich environment which embraced women. 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.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Brownlee|first1=David B.|last2=De Long|first2=David G.|last3=Whitaker|first3=Kathryn|title=Out of the Ordinary|url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780300089950|url-access=registration|date=2001|publisher=Philadelphia Museum of Art|location=Philadelphia, PA}}</ref>