Designers and Books spent an afternoon with Denise Scott Brown at the suburban Philadelphia home she shares with her husband, Robert Venturi, talking with her about what went into making Learning from Las Vegas, her thoughts about the book’s significance today, new writing, and what she’s working on next.

First page of marked-up manuscript of Learning from Las Vegas. The Architectural Archives, University of Pennsylvania, by the gift of Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown
First page of marked-up manuscript of Learning from Las Vegas. The Architectural Archives, University of Pennsylvania, by the gift of Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown