The 2018 Soane Medal was awarded to architect and educator Denise Scott Brown, whose ideas and work as architect, planner, urbanist, theorist, writer and educator have had a global influence, transforming thinking about architecture and cities. As an academic and educator, Scott Brown has led countless research projects, notably Learning from Las Vegas, which became a seminal book (1972; revised edition 1977, with Robert Venturi and Steven Izenour). Both the ideas and the techniques employed in this and other studies have proved highly influential on the subsequent direction of architectural research.

Watch the Soane Medal Lecture 2018, pre-recorded by Denise Scott Brown at her home in Philadelphia, below. The publication is available to purchase at our online shop: https://shop.soane.org/collections/bo...