{"id":6854,"date":"2026-04-15T19:00:52","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T19:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/angesfinanciers.org\/?p=6854"},"modified":"2026-04-17T15:14:47","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T15:14:47","slug":"flower-covered-theatre-forms-centrepiece-of-denise-scott-browns-photography-exhibition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/angesfinanciers.org\/index.php\/2026\/04\/15\/flower-covered-theatre-forms-centrepiece-of-denise-scott-browns-photography-exhibition\/","title":{"rendered":"Flower-covered theatre forms centrepiece of Denise Scott Brown’s photography exhibition"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A flower-covered theatre<\/a> has been installed at the centre of an exhibition<\/a> dedicated to architect Denise Scott Brown<\/a>‘s photographs at the brutalist Yale architecture school building in New Haven, USA.<\/span><\/p>\n

Set within the Paul Rudolph<\/a>-designed architecture school, Encounters: Denise Scott Brown Photographs<\/a> aims to draw attention to the photographs taken by the highly influential architect in the early part of her career.<\/p>\n

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Encounters: Denise Scott Brown Photographs is an exhibition at Yale<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

“Our two main aims were to present this extraordinary body of work, much of which has never before been exhibited, and to prompt audiences to think critically about it in the context of 20th-century architecture and design,” explained the exhibition’s curator Izzy Kornblatt.<\/p>\n

“To that end, the show includes not just Denise’s photos but archival materials, design objects, and work by other photographers like Ed Ruscha and David Goldblatt, all of which helps place Denise’s work into historical context and suggest new ways of thinking about it.”<\/p>\n

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The centrepiece of the exhibition is a circular theatre<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

At the centre of the exhibition is a custom-built, circular theatre painted light green and adorned with reflective, silver flower shapes.<\/p>\n

Within the theatre, a pair of projectors shows juxtapositions of Scott Brown’s photographs on 35-millimetre slides, while the form acts as a device to organise the space.<\/p>\n

The colour and form were also chosen to contrast with the brutalist building.<\/p>\n

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The theatre is painted green and covered in reflective flowers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

“There are a lot of things we like about the round theatre, but ultimately it comes down to that form working better in the space than everything else we tried,” explained Yaxuan Liu, who co-designed the exhibition with Kornblatt.<\/p>\n

“It’s an incredible gallery, designed by Paul Rudolph, but the double height and bush-hammered concrete give it such a strong architectural presence that it can swallow up small or delicate works on display.”<\/p>\n