Learning From Las Vegas: The Forgotten Symbolism Of Architectural Form

VENTURI, Robert BROWN, Denise Scott and IZENOUR, Steven [192] pp. The MIT Press 1982 Fifth Printing 9 1/4" x 6 1/2" Learning from Las Vegas is a 1972 book by Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown, and Steven Izenour. Translated into 18 languages, the book helped foster the development of postmodern architecture. Compilation In March 1968, Robert Venturi, writer of Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture, and Denise Scott Brown wrote and published "A Significance for A&P Parking Lots, or Learning from Las Vegas" (Architectural Forum, March 1968). That following fall, the two created a research studio for graduate students at Yale School of Art and Architecture. The studio was called "Learning from Las Vegas, or Form Analysis as Design Research".