For more than fifty years, Denise Scott Brown has tirelessly contributed to changing the way architects look at themselves -and, quite possibly, changing the way that society looks at architects. Firstly, she challenged the quasi-exclusively male representation of architectural practice, courageously denouncing endemic sexism in the field. She also fought antiintellectualism in professional circles by promoting the uses of social sciences in the development of urban planning and architectural design. Moreover, she broadened the culture of architects by including popular and commercial buildings and artifacts, long despised by highbrow historians and critics. On the latter point, I will be suggesting here that together with Robert Venturi, Scott Brown demonstrated a "camp" sensibility -an attitude described and theorized by one of her contemporaries, namely the American essayist Susan Sontag. Although there is little indication that Scott Brown was aware of "Notes on 'Camp"' (1964) 1 or that later on Sontag read Learning from Las Vegas (1972), 2 it is fruitful to cross-examine these two seminal texts, written and co-written a few years apart by two women who made indelible marks on American intellectual life. Such analysis might in particular shed some light on the way social commitment changed in the field of architecture after 1968.