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Robert Venturi & Denise Scott Brown - Living with my mother (Part 1) (23/118)

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Channel: Web of Stories - Life Stories of Remarkable People · 2017 · Science & Technology

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Internationally renowned architects Robert Venturi (1925-2018) and Denise Scott Brown (b. 1931) have helped transform contemporary design through their innovative architecture and planning, winning numerous prestigious awards for their work along the way. [Listener: Thomas Hughes]

TRANSCRIPT: [RV] We moved into the house… we moved in… my mother and I moved together into the house, I was still a bachelor, on April 1st 1940 and… no, 1964, I’m sorry. In 1964, and in 1964 I was… I was born in 1925 so that meant I was…

[DSB] 29.

[RV] 39.

[DSB] 39, that’s right.

[RV] 39, when I moved in. So yeah, architects get… you know, architects… it’s an old man’s profession, you get to start… you get to do your work late in life. If you’re a painter you can paint, you might be starving but you can still paint. When you’re an architect and you get the building built you have to do it… you have to… you get to do it late.

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