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35%OFFRobert Venturi - Learning From Las Vegas: The Forgotten Symbolism of Architectural Form - 9780262720069 - V9780262720069
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Learning From Las Vegas: The Forgotten Symbolism of Architectural Form

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Description for Learning From Las Vegas: The Forgotten Symbolism of Architectural Form Paperback. The final part of the 1st ed. is not included in this revision. Num Pages: 208 pages, 146ill. BIC Classification: AM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 154 x 10. Weight in Grams: 346.

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 ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
MIT Press Ltd United States
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1977
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780262720069
SKU
V9780262720069
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99-32

About Robert Venturi
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 ... Read more

Reviews for Learning From Las Vegas: The Forgotten Symbolism of Architectural Form
...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

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