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Learning from Las Vegas - Revised Edition: The Forgotten Symbolism of Architectural Form Paperback – Illustrated, June 15, 1977
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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.
- Print length192 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherThe MIT Press
- Publication dateJune 15, 1977
- Grade level12 and up
- Reading age18 years and up
- Dimensions8.92 x 6.05 x 0.53 inches
- ISBN-10026272006X
- ISBN-13978-0262720069
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...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—From the Back Cover
About the Author
Denise Scott Brown is an architect, writer, and planner. She and Robert Venturi are founding principals of the influential architectural firm Venturi, Scott Brown, and Associates (VSBA), whose work and ideas have influenced generations of architects and planners.
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.
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- Publisher : The MIT Press; Revised edition (June 15, 1977)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 192 pages
- ISBN-10 : 026272006X
- ISBN-13 : 978-0262720069
- Reading age : 18 years and up
- Grade level : 12 and up
- Item Weight : 12 ounces
- Dimensions : 8.92 x 6.05 x 0.53 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #342,143 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #64 in Architectural Criticism
- #101 in Urban & Land Use Planning (Books)
- #262 in Architectural History
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This book is the revised edition edited as a "cheap" book so that any student could buy it whereas the first edition was said to be costing a lot of money even the reprint of the first edition (we have read this on specialized articles). One reason of this high cost of the First edition may have been the fact that one of the great mind of the XXe century working for the MIT Press and who designed the book Learning from Las Vegas (LFLV) was Madame Muriel COOPER (1925-1994): Muriel was also the co-founder of the Visible Language Workshop which will become the physical language workshop of the MIT, a revolutionnary laboratory where information landscapes were beeing set up and built for anyone who would use a screen in her or his personnal computer.
When first published, the book LFLV and the way it was designed as a paper document by Muriel Cooper created also a scandal. So either the content of the YALE univ. workshops/seminars sumarized in this "Learning from Las Vegas" book and either the first container of the book it self as a metonymy of the process were photographs of major moments of " in progress " modern architecture critical thinkings .
This revised edition (which does not restaure the memory of Madame Muriel Cooper's work) includes a preface written by Madame Denise Scott Brown.