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Learning from Las Vegas, revised edition The Forgotten Symbolism of Architectural Form

Paperback • 1977 • English

Learning from Las Vegas, revised edition The Forgotten Symbolism of Architectural Form

By Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown, Steven Izenour

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About the book

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 icon...Show more

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9780262720069

Publisher

MIT Press

Published year

1977

Language

English

Original title

Learning from Las Vegas, revised edition The Forgotten Symbolism of Architectural Form

Format

Paperback

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