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Learning from Las Vegas, Revised Edition: The Forgotten Symbolism of Architectural Form

AUTHOR Izenour, Steven; Brown, Denise Scott; Venturi, Robert et al.
PUBLISHER MIT Press (06/15/1977)
PRODUCT TYPE Paperback (Paperback)

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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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ISBN-13: 9780262720069
ISBN-10: 026272006X
Binding: Paperback or Softback (Trade Paperback (Us))
Content Language: English
Edition Number: 0002
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Page Count: 208
Carton Quantity: 42
Product Dimensions: 6.05 x 0.53 x 8.92 inches
Weight: 0.76 pound(s)
Feature Codes: Bibliography, Price on Product, Illustrated
Country of Origin: US
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BISAC Categories
Architecture | Criticism
Architecture | Urban & Land Use Planning
Architecture | General
Grade Level: College Freshman and up
Dewey Decimal: 720.979
Library of Congress Control Number: 77001917
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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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