Denise Scott Brown

Denise Scott Brown (Nkana, Zambia, 1931) is one of the most significant architects of the second half of the 20th century. The exhibition is the first major retrospective dedicated exclusively to the architect. Curated by architects Maria Pia Fontana and Miguel Mayorga and divided into three sections—City, Street, House—it presents for the first time around one hundred works (drawings, photographs, posters, and models) by Scott Brown and her partners to highlight her enormous contribution to contemporary visual culture.

The exhibition includes around twenty works of art and furnishings from the architect’s private collection (by Ed Ruscha, Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, and others). Scott Brown’s voice will be part of the exhibition thanks to a 30-minute documentary produced by the museum and directed by Manuel Asín and Pablo García Canga. It features Scott Brown’s reflections as well as images of her home in Philadelphia. This film is a double portrait composed of the architect’s home and her words, conveying her thinking in both form and content.