Learning From Las Vegas
The Forgotten Symbolism of Architectural Form
2nd Edition
Published on 15. June 1977
Book
Paperback/Softback
208 pages
978-0-262-72006-9 (ISBN)
Description
Learning from Las Vegas created a healthy controversy on its appearance in 1972, calling for architects to be more receptive to the tastes and values of "common" people and less immodest in their erections of "heroic," self-aggrandizing monuments.
This revision includes the full texts of Part I of the original, on the Las Vegas strip, and Part II, "Ugly and Ordinary Architecture, or the Decorated Shed," a generalization from the findings of the first part on symbolism in architecture and the iconography of urban sprawl. (The final part of the first edition, on the architectural work of the firm Venturi and Rauch, is not included in the revision.) The new paperback edition has a smaller format, fewer pictures, and a considerably lower price than the original. There are an added preface by Scott Brown and a bibliography of writings by the members of Venturi and Rauch and about the firm's work.
This revision includes the full texts of Part I of the original, on the Las Vegas strip, and Part II, "Ugly and Ordinary Architecture, or the Decorated Shed," a generalization from the findings of the first part on symbolism in architecture and the iconography of urban sprawl. (The final part of the first edition, on the architectural work of the firm Venturi and Rauch, is not included in the revision.) The new paperback edition has a smaller format, fewer pictures, and a considerably lower price than the original. There are an added preface by Scott Brown and a bibliography of writings by the members of Venturi and Rauch and about the firm's work.
Reviews / Votes
...a brilliant document of the times...a work which uses history knowledgeably, skillfully, and creatively: a rarity.-Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians ...professionally informed, competitively astute, and perversely brilliant...
-The Yale Review ...these studies are brilliant...the kind of art history and theory that is rarely produced.
-Ada Louis Huxtable, The New York Times
More details
Series
Edition
revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United States
Publishing group
MIT Press Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student and over
Edition type
Revised edition
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
358 s/w Abbildungen, 180 farbige Abbildungen
180 color illus., 358 b&w illus.; 538 Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 149 mm
Width: 227 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
354 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-262-72006-9 (9780262720069)
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Persons
Robert Venturi is an award-winning architect and an influential writer, teacher, artist, and designer. His work includes includes the Sainsbury Wing of London's National Galler; renovation of the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego; dozens of major academic projects; and the groundbreaking Vanna Venturi House. Denise Scott Brown is an architect, writer, and planner. She and Robert Venturi are founding principals of the influential architectural firm Venturi, Scott Brown, and Associates (VSBA), whose work and ideas have influenced generations of architects and planners. Steven Izenour (1940-2001) was coauthor of Learning from Las Vegas (MIT Press, 1977) and a principal in the Philadelphia firm Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates, Inc (VSBA). His most noted projects at VSBA include Philadelphia's Basco showroom, the George D. Widener Memorial Treehouse at the Philadelphia Zoo, the Camden Children's Garden, and the house he designed for his parents in Stony Creek, Connecticut.