Description: 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.
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Narrative Type: book
Type: book
Intended Audience: General/trade
Edition: 2
Book Title: Learning from Las Vegas, Revised Edition : the Forgotten Symbolism of Architectural Form
Number of Pages: 208 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication Year: 1977
Item Height: 0.6 in
Topic: Urban & Land Use Planning, History / Contemporary (1945-), Buildings / Public, Commercial & Industrial, Regional
Illustrator: Yes
Features: Revised
Genre: Architecture
Item Weight: 12.1 Oz
Item Length: 9 in
Author: Robert Venturi, Steven Izenour, Denise Scott Brown
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
