Stardust: The Story of Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown

Filmmaker and son of, Jim Venturi , makes a highly personal portrait of his parents Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown. In the 1950s-1970s, the starchitect couple turned the architectural world upside down with their revolutionary thinking that put American billboards on the same pedestal as Venetian palazzi. They inspired designers to learn their own lessons from their own favorite buildings and cities instead of following the dogmatic standards of American and European educational institutions. These lessons eventually led to the birth of postmodernism. Jim Venturi paints a complete picture of the turmoil they caused: from a sexist Philip Johnson, a bitter Leon Krier and a powerful Scott Brown who knows how to hold his own in the misogynistic world of architecture.