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

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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 not more immodest of their erections of “heroic,” self-aggrandizing monuments.

This revision includes the entire texts of Part I of the original, at the Las Vegas strip, and Part II, “Ugly and Bizarre 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 a part of the first edition, at the architectural work of the firm Venturi and Rauch, isn’t included within the revision.) The brand 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 in regards to the firm’s work.

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