Edited Orality: Relearning from Denise Scott Brown’s Answers in the Interview Relearning from Las Vegas
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https://doi.org/10.26754/ojs_zarch/zarch.2022186189Keywords:
Women Architects, Oral History, Interview, Rem Koolhaas, Robert Venturi, Critical ThinkingAbstract
In developing a more inclusive architectural history, using oral history as a methodology for accessing silenced experiences, sharing forgotten knowledge, and transcending the drawn or build construct can be enlightening. It is possible by exploring a crucial but largely overlooked question: the role of the interview in architectural practice —not interviews of architects but interviews by architects—. In particular, the interview Relearning from Las Vegas (2000), conducted by Rem Koolhaas in collaboration with Hans Ulrich Obrist to Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown. It is no coincidence that Koolhaas's beginnings as an interviewer took place at the Haagse Post, with editing processes that were a tool for assembling transcripts focused on the unpopular as a critical exercise. The edited orality allows him to redesign the character, emphasize what interests him, and eliminate what does not build the desired profile. Revalue some of Scott Brown's answers means providing an essayistic and speculative value to the spoken and informal content as a legitimate source to vindicate contributions of the interviewee. These editorial practices will contrast positions by entering into the slippery territories of a discipline that evades an outspoken realism to face the future with some critical stance.
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