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Synopsis
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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About the Author
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.
Review
...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"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.
- PublisherThe MIT Press
- Publication date1977
- ISBN 10 026272006X
- ISBN 13 9780262720069
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages192
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