Learning from las vegas - revised edition : the forgotten symbolism of architectural form / Robert Venturi, Steven Izenour and Denise Scott Brown.
Publisher: Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1977Edition: revised editionDescription: 193 p. ; 23 cmISBN: 9780262720069 (paperback); 9780262720069 (paperback)Subject(s): Architecture -- Nevada -- Las Vegas | Symbolism in architecture | ArchitectureDDC classification: 720.9793135 Online resources: Amazon.com Summary: 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.| Item type | Current location | Home library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| 720.97471 KOO 1994 Delirious New York : | 720.97471 MAR 2009 Building new york : | 720.9793 VIN 2008 I am a monument : | 720.9793135 VEN 1977 Learning from las vegas - revised edition : | 720.9794 CAL 2023 California dreaming: | 720.979494 BAN 1971 Los Angeles : | 720.979632 EDI 2006 Sun Valley architecture and interiors / |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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