In the 1960s, Robert Venturi and I played a game we called ‘I can like something worse than you can like.’

- Denise Scott Brown

We have no sociology of architecture. Architects are unaccustomed to social analysis and mistrust it; sociologists have fatter fish to fry.

- Denise Scott Brown

Nobody believes that domestic violence kills and nobody believes it is detrimental to children. This world has got to wake up. To me, if there is dom…

- Denise Scott Brown

Faced with unmeasurables, people steer their way by magic. Before the invention of navigational instruments, a beautiful lady was carved on the prow …

- Denise Scott Brown

Architecture can't force people to connect, it can only plan the crossing points, remove barriers, and make the meeting places useful and attractive.

- Denise Scott Brown

At about five I knew I was going to be an architect because my mother had studied architecture. I thought it was women's work. I had a proprietary fe…

- Denise Scott Brown