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Learning from Las Vegas, Revised Edition : The Forgotten Symbolism of Architectural Form by Robert Venturi, Steven Izenour and Denise Scott Brown (1977, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherMIT Press
ISBN-10026272006X
ISBN-139780262720069
eBay Product ID (ePID)26038265670
Product Key Features
Edition2
Book TitleLearning from Las Vegas, Revised Edition : the Forgotten Symbolism of Architectural Form
Number of Pages208 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicUrban & Land Use Planning, History / Contemporary (1945-), Buildings / Public, Commercial & Industrial, Regional
Publication Year1977
IllustratorYes
FeaturesRevised
GenreArchitecture
AuthorRobert Venturi, Steven Izenour, Denise Scott Brown
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.6 in
Item Weight12.6 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
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Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN77-001917
Reviews...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 --, "...a brilliant document of the times...a work which uses history knowledgeably,skillfully, and creatively: a rarity." Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, "...these studies are brilliant...the kind of art history and theory that is rarelyproduced." The New York Times Ada Louis Huxtable, "...these studies are brilliant...the kind of art history and theory that is rarely produced." The New York Times Ada Louis Huxtable, ...a brilliant document of the times...a work which uses history knowledgeably, skillfully, and creatively: a rarity., "...a brilliant document of the times...a work which uses history knowledgeably, skillfully, and creatively: a rarity." Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians
Grade FromCollege Graduate Student
Edition DescriptionRevised edition
SynopsisLearning 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.
