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Learning from Las Vegas - Revised Edition: The For
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Learning from Las Vegas - Revised Edition: The For Paperback - 1977

by Venturi, Robert

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  • Title Learning from Las Vegas - Revised Edition: The For
  • Author Venturi, Robert
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: Repri
  • Condition New
  • Pages 208
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher The MIT Press, Cambridge
  • Date 1977-06-15
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated
  • Bookseller's Inventory # ING9780262720069
  • ISBN 9780262720069 / 026272006X
  • Weight 0.76 lbs (0.34 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.92 x 6.05 x 0.53 in (22.66 x 15.37 x 1.35 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Western U.S.
    • Geographic Orientation: Nevada
  • Library of Congress subjects Symbolism in architecture, Architecture - Nevada - Las Vegas
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 77001917
  • Dewey Decimal Code 720.979

From the rear cover

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 finding of the first part on symbolism in architecture and the iconography of urban sprawl.

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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.

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