Stardust: A Story of Love and Architecture

For more than fifty years, Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown shared a life full of humour, wit and creative daring. They turned against the dominant modernism of their time and advocated complexity and learning from the everyday landscape. Their partnership became a new model of equal collaboration, in which love and intellect constantly challenge and reinforce each other.

But their journey also had its downsides. In a male-dominated world, Denise often had to fight for recognition. The controversial awarding of the Pritzker Prize – in which she was not honoured – became a symbol of inequality within the architectural world. Stardust is a deeply human film that invites you to travel through memories, buildings and ideas.

Jim Venturi (director & producer) and Anita Naughton (writer & editor) are the filmmakers of Stardust. Jim’s debut documentary offers a rare and personal look at his parents’ lives, informed by over a decade of filming and dozens of interviews with architects, artists and collaborators from all over the world. Stardust is a deeply human film that invites you to travel through memories, buildings and ideas.