Learning from Las Vegas
The Forgotten Symbolism of Architectural Form
Robert Venturi ; Denise Scott Brown ; Steven Izenour

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Publication

Cambridge, Mass. ; London : The MIT Press, 2000

Scope

192 Pages, illustrated, 23 cm.

ISBN

026272006X

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Learning from Las Vegas is 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.

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Person as subject

Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown, Steven Izenour

Keywords

public space , graphic design in public space , architects , visual culture , architecture theory

Geographical location

United States Nevada Las Vegas

Location

Cabinet 15 - 4: Architectuur en Kunst

Extra themes

Architecture and Toursim

Remarks

Revised Edition, first published in 1972 ; Incl. Bibliographical References ;zie ook ; kast 13 - 2 : Grafische vormgeving in de openbare ruimte