Robert Venturi

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Learning from Las Vegas, Revised Edition: The Forgotten Symbolism of Architectural Form (Revised)Paperback - Revised, 15 June 1977

Learning from Las Vegas, Revised Edition: The Forgotten Symbolism of Architectural Form (Revised)
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Reading Age
Ages: 18
Grade Levels
13
Print Length
208 pages
Language
English
Publisher
MIT Press
Date Published
15 Jun 1977
ISBN-10
026272006X
ISBN-13
9780262720069

Description

"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.

Product Details

Audience:
Ages: 18
Authors:
Robert VenturiDenise Scott BrownSteven Izenour
Book Edition:
Revised
Book Format:
Paperback
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
15 June 1977
Dimensions:
22.66 x 15.37 x 1.35 cm
Educational Level:
Grade Levels: 13
ISBN-10:
026272006X
ISBN-13:
9780262720069
Language:
English
Location:
Cambridge
Pages:
208
Publisher:
Weight:
344.73 gm

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