| Description |
1 online resource (221 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Introduction : instruction as provocation / Aron Vinegar and Michael J. Golec -- Aesthetic or anaesthetic : a Nelson Goodman reading of the Las Vegas Strip / Ritu Bhatt -- Format and layout in Learning from Las Vegas / Michael J. Golec -- Photorealism, kitsch, and Venturi / Jean-Claude Lebensztejn -- Theory as ornament / Karsten Harries -- Mobilizing visions : representing the American landscape / Katherine Smith -- On billboards and other signs around (Learning from) Las Vegas / John McMorrough -- Signs taken for wonders / Dell Upton -- The melodrama of expression and inexpression in the duck and decorated shed / Aron Vinegar -- Learning from Las Vegas-- and Los Angeles and Reyner Banham / Nigel Whiteley |
| Summary |
Immediately on its publication in 1972, Learning from Las Vegas, by Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown, and Steven Izenour, was hailed as a transformative work in the history and theory of architecture, liberating those in architecture who were trying to find a way out of the straitjacket of architectural orthodoxies. Resonating far beyond the professional and institutional boundaries of the field, the book contributed to a thorough rethinking of modernism and was subsequently taken up as an early manifestation and progenitor of postmodernism. Going beyond analyzing the original text, the essa |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Venturi, Robert. Learning from Las Vegas
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Architecture, Modern -- 20th century -- Philosophy
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ARCHITECTURE -- Regional.
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ARCHITECTURE -- Criticism.
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ARCHITECTURE -- History -- General.
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Architecture, Modern -- Philosophy
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Vinegar, Aron.
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Golec, Michael J.
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| ISBN |
9780816666393 |
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0816666393 |
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