Editing Denise Scott Brown (section)

== Partnership with Robert Venturi ==

Scott Brown met Robert Venturi at Penn in the early 1960s, beginning personal and professional partnership that would span decades. They married in 1967 and established Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates (originally Venturi and Rauch). The partnership combined Venturi's theoretical interests with Scott Brown's urban planning expertise and her eye for the significance of everyday environments. The precise contribution of each partner to joint projects remains debated, but their work clearly benefited from complementary perspectives.<ref name="brownlee"/>

The partnership's most famous product, ''Learning from Las Vegas'' (1972), brought Scott Brown's interests in commercial vernacular and urban analysis together with Venturi's architectural theory. The book grew from a studio Scott Brown led at Yale, studying the Las Vegas Strip as legitimate urban phenomenon. Her background in urban planning informed the book's attention to the Strip as system rather than merely collection of buildings. The book's influence on architectural discourse owed much to Scott Brown's ability to see significance in environments that architects typically ignored.<ref name="stierli"/>