Learning From Las Vegas Revised Edition

Author : Robert Venturi,Denise Scott Brown,Steven Izenour
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1977-06-15
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780262720069

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Learning from Las Vegas, revised edition by Robert Venturi,Denise Scott Brown,Steven Izenour Pdf

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.

Author : Robert Venturi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:959410184

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Learning from Las Vegas by Robert Venturi Pdf

Author : Robert Venturi,Denise Scott Brown,Steven Izenour
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1398040918

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Learning from Las Vegas by Robert Venturi,Denise Scott Brown,Steven Izenour Pdf

Author : Aron Vinegar
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Architectural writing
ISBN : 9780262220828

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I Am a Monument by Aron Vinegar Pdf

"Learning from Las Vegas, originally published by the MIT Press in 1972, was one of the most influential and controversial architectural books of its era. Thirty-five years later, it remains a perennial bestseller and a definitive theoretical text. Its authorsاarchitects Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown, and Steven Izenourاfamously used the Las Vegas Strip to argue the virtues of the "ordinary and ugly" above the "heroic and original" qualities of architectural modernism. Learning from Las Vegas not only moved architecture to the center of cultural debates, it changed our ideas about what architecture was and could be. In this provocative rereading of an iconic text, Aron Vinegar argues that Learning from Las Vegas is not only of historical interest but of absolute relevance to current critical debates in architectural and visual culture. Vinegar argues that to read Learning from Las Vegas only as an exemplary postmodernist textاto understand it, for example, as a call for pastiche or as ironic provocationاis to underestimate its deeper critical and ethical meaning, and to miss the underlying dialectic between skepticism and the ordinary, expression and the deadpan, that runs through the text. Vinegar's close attention to the graphic design of Learning from Las Vegas, and his fresh interpretations of now canonical images from the book such as the Duck, the Decorated Shed, and the "recommendation for a monument," make his book unique. Perhaps most revealing is his close analysis of the differences between the first 1972 edition, designed for the MIT Press by Muriel Cooper, and the "revised" edition of 1977, which was radically stripped down and largely redesigned by Denise Scott Brown. The dialogue between the two editions continues with this book, where for the first time the two versions of Learning from Las Vegas are read comparatively."--Publisher's website.

Author : Louis I. Kahn,John Lobell
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2008-09-09
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781590306048

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Between Silence and Light by Louis I. Kahn,John Lobell Pdf

In the development of contemporary architecture, no one has had a greater influence than Louis I. Kahn, whose many buildings include the Salk Institute, the Yale Study Center, and the Exeter Library. He is remembered, however, not only as a master builder, but also as one of the most important and creative thinkers of the twentieth century. For Kahn, the study of architecture was the study of human beings, their highest aspirations and most profound truths. He searched for forms and materials to express the subtlety and grandeur of life. In his buildings we see the realization of his vision: luminous surfaces that evoke a fundamental awe, silent courtyards that speak of the expansiveness and the sanctity of the spirit, monumental columns and graceful arches that embody dignity and strength. Updated with a new preface, this classic work is a major statement on human creativity, showing us Louis Kahn as architect, visionary, and poet.

Author : Kester Rattenbury,Samantha Hardingham
Publisher : SuperCrit
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0415434149

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Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown by Kester Rattenbury,Samantha Hardingham Pdf

Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown revisit their 'infamous' book which overturned the barriers separating high architecture from the commercial architecture of the Strip. You can get involved, hear the couple's project description, see the drawings and join in the crit.

Author : Robert Venturi
Publisher : The Museum of Modern Art
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0870702823

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Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture by Robert Venturi Pdf

Foreword by Arthur Drexler. Introduction by Vincent Scully.

Author : Aron Vinegar,Michael J. Golec
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780816650606

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Relearning from Las Vegas by Aron Vinegar,Michael J. Golec Pdf

Evaluates for the first time one of the foundational works in architecture criticism. 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.

Author : Stefan Al
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-03
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780262035743

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The Strip by Stefan Al Pdf

The transformations of the Strip—from the fake Wild West to neon signs twenty stories high to “starchitecture”—and how they mirror America itself. The Las Vegas Strip has impersonated the Wild West, with saloon doors and wagon wheels; it has decked itself out in midcentury modern sleekness. It has illuminated itself with twenty-story-high neon signs, then junked them. After that came Disney-like theme parks featuring castles and pirates, followed by replicas of Venetian canals, New York skyscrapers, and the Eiffel Tower. (It might be noted that forty-two million people visited Las Vegas in 2015—ten million more than visited the real Paris.) More recently, the Strip decided to get classy, with casinos designed by famous architects and zillion-dollar collections of art. Las Vegas became the “implosion capital of the world” as developers, driven by competition, got rid of the old to make way for the new—offering a non-metaphorical definition of “creative destruction.” In The Strip, Stefan Al examines the many transformations of the Las Vegas Strip, arguing that they mirror transformations in America itself. The Strip is not, as popularly supposed, a display of architectural freaks but representative of architectural trends and a record of social, cultural, and economic change. Al tells two parallel stories. He describes the feverish competition of Las Vegas developers to build the snazziest, most tourist-grabbing casinos and resorts—with a cast of characters including the mobster Bugsy Siegel, the eccentric billionaire Howard Hughes, and the would-be political kingmaker Sheldon Adelson. And he views the Strip in a larger social context, showing that it has not only reflected trends but also magnified them and sometimes even initiated them. Generously illustrated with stunning color images throughout, The Strip traces the many metamorphoses of a city that offers a vivid projection of the American dream.

Author : Jeremy Eric Tenenbaum,Denise Scott Brown
Publisher : Park Publishing (WI)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 3038601276

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Your Guide to Downtown Denise Scott Brown by Jeremy Eric Tenenbaum,Denise Scott Brown Pdf

"The exhibition catalogue is published in the form of a guidebook, Your Guide to Downtown Denise Scott Brown. This new book offers a fresh view of Scott Brown's achievements as a preeminent architectural designer, urbanist, theoretician, and teacher. It is a fantastic guide to her life and ideas, it also reveals her humanism, complexity, and wit. Accompanied by previously unpublished material and an extensive conversation with the architect herself the book leads readers through Denise Scott Brown's life and work and explains the genesis of the exhibition". (éditeur).

Author : Robert Venturi,Denise Scott Brown
Publisher : Belknap Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Architectural design
ISBN : UOM:39015062827152

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Architecture as Signs and Systems by Robert Venturi,Denise Scott Brown Pdf

The observer-designer-theorists who analyzed the Las Vegas strip as an archetype in "Learning from Las Vegas" now turn their iconoclastic vision onto their own remarkable partnership and the rule-breaking architecture it has spawned for this fascinating retrospective of their life work.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:813854462

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Las Vegas Studio by Anonim Pdf

Author : Charles Jencks
Publisher : New York : Rizzoli
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Architecture, Modern
ISBN : UCSD:31822004624599

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The Language of Post-modern Architecture by Charles Jencks Pdf

Author : Elizabeth Barlow Rogers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 0890135789

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Learning Las Vegas by Elizabeth Barlow Rogers Pdf

Highlights the drama that unfolded for young nineteenth-century European Jewish immigrants who built on their cultural and social relationships to become successful citizens.

Author : Martino Stierli
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781606061374

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Las Vegas in the Rearview Mirror by Martino Stierli Pdf

An illustrated reevaluation of the seminal architectural manifesto Learning from Las Vegas. It explores the significance of this controversial publication by situating it in the artistic, architectural, and urbanist discourse of the 1960s and '70s, and by evaluating the book's enduring influence of visual studies and architectural research.