Jim Venturi and Anita Naughton’s film Stardust paints an intimate portrait of architecture’s most influential partnership, revealing the human story behind revolutionary ideas. Screened at the Barbican late last year, the film captures Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown’s rebellious spirit, creative synergy, and their fight for recognition in a profession that often sidelined women. Personal reflections connect their theoretical work to their lived experience, bringing new depth to ideas that continue to shape architectural discourse.

The Barbican’s screening of Stardust transported me back to my fourth year at the Goa College of Architecture, where I first encountered Venturi and Scott Brown’s revolutionary ideas in Dr. Vishvesh Kandolkar’s Urban Design Studio. Now, watching their story unfold on screen, I saw the human dimension behind the texts that had shaped my architectural education.

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