6 Quotes by Denise Scott Brown

You can have mythic allusions in houses with flat roofs, and you can also play on the roof.

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

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

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

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 feeling about architecture. I could own it because my mother owned it.

Faced with unmeasurables, people steer their way by magic.