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

Robert Venturi

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"Their insight and analysis, reasoned back through the history of style and symbolism and forward to the recognition of a new kind of building that responds directly to speed, mobility, the superhighway and changing life styles, is the kind of art history and theory that is rarely produced. The rapid evolution of modern architecture from Le Corbusier to Brazil to Miami to the roadside motel in a brief 40-year span, with all the behavioral esthetics involved, is something neither architect nor historian has deigned to notice...."
-- Ada Louise Huxtable, "The New York TImes" "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 architectureal 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.

Book Details

  • Publisher: MIT Press
  • Publish Date: Jun 15th, 1977
  • Pages: 208
  • Language: English
  • Edition: Revised - 0002
  • Dimensions: 8.92in - 6.05in - 0.53in - 0.76lb
  • EAN: 9780262720069
  • Recommended age: 18-UP
  • Categories: • Criticism• Urban & Land Use Planning• General

About the Author

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.

Praise for this book

...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--