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Learning from Las Vegas - Revised Edition: The Forgotten Symbolism of Architectural Form by [Robert venturi, Steven Izenour, Dennis Scott Brown]

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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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...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— --This text refers to the paperback edition.

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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 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. --This text refers to the paperback edition.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0BPJPV9JG
Publisher ‏ : ‎ The MIT Press; revised edition (June 15, 1977) (Dec 7 2022)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 25893 KB
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M. R. Magnan

Illustrations too small

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on November 15, 2009

First of all, this book is an architectural classic, and is on of those works which must be read for one's self before passing judgement on the content. I find that the content is today more applicable to the suburban condition which pervades the developed world than specifically Las Vegas. I suspect that developer's have learned more from this book than architects.

My biggest issue with this book is not with the content, but the execution. The illustrations are far too small, and often placed many pages away from the actual text which references the illustrations. While I understand the publisher is trying to produce a paperback which is affordable, I believe they have taken too many shortcuts, resulting in a book which is difficult to read.

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doomsdayer520

An Architectural Nightmare

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on January 17, 2004

This is a quite unusual and offbeat treatise on architectural theory, as applied to the world's greatest architectural monstrosity - Las Vegas. This analysis from the early 1970s is obviously outdated because Las Vegas hadn't yet become the monument to megalomania and excess that it is today, but it was already well on its way. The authors analyze Vegas' unique usages of space, lighting, placement, transportation, and building design for the purposes of communication and promotion. Strange chapter titles give a clue to the left-field analysis in store, and the authors have a clear sense of irony, underhandedly implying that Vegas presents the worst in architecture while they appear to be praising its uniqueness. Unfortunately the narrative gets bogged down in dense professor-speak terminology like "Brazilianoid" and "neo-Constructivist megastructures," along with a general overload of obtuse theory. Add to that the poor-quality and under-elaborated illustrations and you have a book that sacrifices insight and readability in favor of pedantic attempts to impress the authors' colleagues. [~doomsdayer520~]

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Brad McCormick

Read this book to learn what you shouldn't do as an architec

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on July 10, 2001

Read this book to learn what you shouldn't do as an architect!
This book follows Venturi's "Complexity and Contradiction", where you can learn how cynically to use casement windows in housing for the elderly where the elderly will happily put their plastic flowers in the windows, but *you* secretly know these are not really hormal casement windows, since they are out of scale (like fascist architecture's lack of scale?).
This book will tell you about ducks and decorated sheds, but it will tell you nothing about building spaces which nourish creative human community. Try Louis Kahn (e.g., John Lobell's lovely little book "Between Silence and Light"). My postmodernist teachers at Harvard said Kahn's writings were incomprehensible, which says more about them than about him.
Read Lobell's book and learn why, e.g., a city might deserve to exist. Remember: Only *you* can get beyond postmodernism!

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Samuel Whiskers

Still Learning from Las Vegas

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on February 8, 2018

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A seminal work in the true meaning of the word(s). It's easy to forget how radical this stuff was at the time, it now seems so obvious. I note that this edition apologises for the omission of the lengthy section in the original edition covering the work of Venturi and Rauch. No great loss in my view; a case of "do as I say, not as I do".

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sarbe

Very interesting

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on January 16, 2018

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This book helped me a LOT with my dissertation, I love it, it had a lot of very interesting points which helped me pass my degree. The writing is a bit stumbly but the information is there. I still re-read it once in a while even though I graduated about four years ago :)

miss t k axford

Happy buyer. Many thanks

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on January 14, 2015

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Purchased as a gift and arrived on time. Happy buyer. Many thanks.

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Five Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on August 31, 2017

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Classic read

CollectifArchitectureEngageePourlhumain

Scott Brown & Venturi as teachers and experimental workshop...ers in LA

Reviewed in France 🇫🇷 on August 13, 2021

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"To protest her exclusion from the Pritzker Club, (the architect) Scott Brown born in 1931 made herself a visible absence at the award ceremony in honor of her husband " ( Bob, not the sponge, Robert Venturi her husband (1925-2018) and architect partner who got for himself ALONE Pritzker prize 1991).
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.

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