CAFx Venturi and Scott Brown: Stardust

Robert Venturi has been called the father of postmodernism, but he was so much more. Join us for a film about the visionary architect and his partner in crime, Denise Scott Brown. A film about taking a sledgehammer to modernism and exploring all that architecture can be.

Stardust is a journey into the uncompromising world of architecture and into a love story and creative partnership that lasted more than half a century.

Filmed with extraordinary intimacy by their son, Jimmy Venturi, Stardust invites viewers to see the world through their eyes.

The film unfolds as a road movie, traveling to the places that mattered most to them—Rome, Venice, Paris, London, Philadelphia, and Las Vegas—while revealing their witty, subversive way of thinking, their struggles within a male-dominated profession and the enduring partnership that reshaped ideas of architectural collaboration.

“Venturi shone a bright light into the often gloomy world of architectural discourse, illuminating a colourful spectrum of possibility, embracing the messy vitality of the “ugly ordinary”, and expanding the very idea of what architecture could be”
-The Guardian