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Learning from Las Vegas: The Forgotten Symbolism of Architectural Form (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for Learning from Las VegasLearning 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 S...
Full description- Publisher: MIT Press
- Published: 15 June 1977
- Format: Paperback 210 pages
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- Categories: Photography | Architecture | Public Buildings: Civic, Commercial, Industrial, Etc | City & Town Planning - Architectural Aspects
- ISBN 13: 9780262720069 ISBN 10: 026272006X
- Sales rank: 21,621
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Full description for Learning from Las Vegas
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.
