Learning From Las Vegas: The Forgotten Symbolism of Architectural Form

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Robert Venturi (Venturi, Scott Brown & Associates Inc) Denise Scott Brown (Architect, Venturi, Scott Brown & Associates Inc)

Learning From Las Vegas

The Forgotten Symbolism of Architectural Form

Robert Venturi (Venturi, Scott Brown & Associates Inc), Denise Scott Brown (Architect, Venturi, Scott Brown & Associates Inc), Steven Izenour

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MIT Press
15 June 1977

Architecture

Series: The MIT Press

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.

By: Robert Venturi (Venturi Scott Brown & Associates Inc), Denise Scott Brown (Architect, Venturi, Scott Brown & Associates Inc), Steven Izenour
Imprint: MIT Press
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: revised edition
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 11mm
Weight: 340g
ISBN: 9780262720069
ISBN 10: 026272006X
Series: The MIT Press
Pages: 208
Publication Date: 15 June 1977
Recommended Age: From 18
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational , A / AS level , Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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.

Reviews for Learning From Las Vegas: The Forgotten Symbolism of Architectural Form

...professionally informed, competitively astute, and perversely brilliant... -- The Yale Review ...a brilliant document of the times...a work which uses history knowledgeably, skillfully, and creatively: a rarity. -- Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians ...these studies are brilliant...the kind of art history and theory that is rarely produced. -- The New York Times, Ada Louis Huxtable