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

VENTURI, Robert, Steven Izenour, Denise Scott Brown

ISBN 10: 026272006X / ISBN 13: 9780262720069

Editore: The MIT Press, 1977, 1977

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Titolo: Learning from Las Vegas, The Forgotten ...

Casa editrice: The MIT Press, 1977

Data di pubblicazione: 1977

Legatura: Brossura

Condizione: near fine

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Riassunto:

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.

L'autore:

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.