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[DSB]I was involved a little bit… I’m trying to think how, because I think I was… I was not around at that time… I was in California then. So, I’m trying to think how it was that I really was involved in the thinking about the routes up to it on the outside, you know, those two kind of stairways which you see as diagonals on the façade. For some reason I had something to do with those, but I don’t know why or how. But I think I was well out of Philadelphia most of the time while that was being planned.

Internationally renowned architects Robert Venturi (1925-2018) and Denise Scott Brown (b.1931) have helped transform contemporary design through their innovative architecture and planning. Winners of numerous prestigious awards, their designs have championed multiculturalism, social activism, symbolism, pop culture, history and evolving technologies.

Listeners: Thomas Hughes

Thomas Hughes is Mellon Professor Emeritus of the History of Science at the University of Pennsylvania and Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His most recent books include Human Built World, Rescuing Prometheus and American Genesis. He is a member of the American Philosophical Society, US National Academy of Engineering, Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Duration: 36 seconds

Date story recorded: 22nd to 23rd September 2006

Date story went live: 27 May 2010