Learning from Las Vegas, Revised Edition: The Forgotten Symbolism of Architectural Form Robert Venturi

Learning from Las Vegas, Revised Edition: The Forgotten Symbolism of Architectural Form

Author: Robert Venturi
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Book Title
Learning from Las Vegas, Revised Edition: The Forgotten Symbolism of Architectural Form
Author
Robert Venturi
ISBN
9780262720069
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.Binding Type: PaperbackAuthor: Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown, Steven IzenourPublisher: MIT PressPublished: 06/15/1977ISBN: 9780262720069Pages: 208Weight: 0.76lbsSize: 8.92h x 6.05w x 0.53d
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.



Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown, Steven Izenour
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 06/15/1977
ISBN: 9780262720069
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.76lbs
Size: 8.92h x 6.05w x 0.53d
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.



Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown, Steven Izenour
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 06/15/1977
ISBN: 9780262720069
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.76lbs
Size: 8.92h x 6.05w x 0.53d