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Learning from Las Vegas - Revised Edition: The Forgotten Symbolism of Architectural Form Paperback – Illustrated, June 15, 1977

by Robert Venturi (Author), Steven Izenour (Author), Denise Scott Brown (Author)
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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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  2. Language
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    The MIT Press
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    June 15, 1977
  5. Grade level
    12 and up
  6. Reading age
    18 years and up
  7. Dimensions
    8.92 x 6.05 x 0.53 inches
  8. ISBN-10
    026272006X
  9. ISBN-13
    978-0262720069
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...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.

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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 finding of the first part on symbolism in architecture and the iconography of urban sprawl.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ The MIT Press; Revised edition (June 15, 1977)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 192 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 026272006X
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0262720069
  • Reading age ‏ : ‎ 18 years and up
  • Grade level ‏ : ‎ 12 and up
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 12.4 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8.92 x 6.05 x 0.53 inches
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Tara Randleman
5.0 out of 5 stars I glanced at the original in the library and was delighted to have the shorter copy
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The production quality is low. I think someone else mentioned that it seems to be a bound mimeograph of an older version of the book. And, as the introduction of the book warns, this is an abridged version of the original report. I glanced at the original in the library and was delighted to have the shorter copy. I think that all the parts that a general architectural tourist might want are here.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Off the beaten path of understanding LV architecture.
Reviewed in the United States on March 7, 2020
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Excellent read!! Best way to know about post modernism era, mid century architecture and of course brilliant exposé of the Las Vegas from 40’s to 70’s.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
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This book inspired me to write my final essay for my BA and now to start an Mphil. I love Venturi's realism and I am looking forward to read all of his work
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4.0 out of 5 stars Easy read on Post Modernism
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Short, readable and about the classic move to post modernism in Architecture
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5.0 out of 5 stars ROBERT VENTURI WAS ONE OF MY PROFESSORS AT PENN, ...
Reviewed in the United States on June 13, 2015
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ROBERT VENTURI WAS ONE OF MY PROFESSORS AT PENN, DENISE SCOTT BROWN WAS A CLASSMATE.
WE ARE STILL LEARNING FROM THEM, 55 YEARS LATER
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5.0 out of 5 stars Great analysis
Reviewed in the United States on May 16, 2012
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Great book on the analysis, of the architecture of Las vegas. This was a ground breaking analysis on the nature and an artistic analysis of what is going on in this city.
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5.0 out of 5 stars She is satisfied. Thanks
Reviewed in the United States on November 26, 2015
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It was for daughter of my friend for school. She is satisfied. Thanks.
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Dave David
5.0 out of 5 stars alles ok
Reviewed in Germany on August 10, 2022
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5.0 out of 5 stars Scott Brown & Venturi as teachers and experimental workshop...ers in LA
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"To protest her exclusion from the Pritzker Club, (the architect) Scott Brown born in 1931 made herself a visible absence at the award ceremony in honor of her husband " ( Bob, not the sponge, Robert Venturi her husband (1925-2018) and architect partner who got for himself ALONE Pritzker prize 1991).
This book is the revised edition edited as a "cheap" book so that any student could buy it whereas the first edition was said to be costing a lot of money even the reprint of the first edition (we have read this on specialized articles). One reason of this high cost of the First edition may have been the fact that one of the great mind of the XXe century working for the MIT Press and who designed the book Learning from Las Vegas (LFLV) was Madame Muriel COOPER (1925-1994): Muriel was also the co-founder of the Visible Language Workshop which will become the physical language workshop of the MIT, a revolutionnary laboratory where information landscapes were beeing set up and built for anyone who would use a screen in her or his personnal computer.
When first published, the book LFLV and the way it was designed as a paper document by Muriel Cooper created also a scandal. So either the content of the YALE univ. workshops/seminars sumarized in this "Learning from Las Vegas" book and either the first container of the book it self as a metonymy of the process were photographs of major moments of " in progress " modern architecture critical thinkings .
This revised edition (which does not restaure the memory of Madame Muriel Cooper's work) includes a preface written by Madame Denise Scott Brown.
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Houman Riazi
5.0 out of 5 stars Recommended for architects and urban designers
Reviewed in Italy on February 8, 2018
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It introduces a unique way of looking at surroundings with a research-based approach and tells how to have a deep sense of architectural analysis by changing the point of view through apparently ridiculous urban elements.
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sarbe
5.0 out of 5 stars Very interesting
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 16, 2018
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This book helped me a LOT with my dissertation, I love it, it had a lot of very interesting points which helped me pass my degree. The writing is a bit stumbly but the information is there. I still re-read it once in a while even though I graduated about four years ago :)
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1.0 out of 5 stars Demora de envío
Reviewed in Mexico on February 7, 2016
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Pedí el libro desde el 21 de enero y nisiquiera me ha aparecido la fecha de envío. Tarda mucho en llegar
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