Learning from Las Vegas revised edition

Learning from Las Vegas  revised edition
Author: Robert Venturi,Denise Scott Brown,Steven Izenour
Publsiher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1977-06-15
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9780262720069

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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.

Learning from Las Vegas

Learning from Las Vegas
Author: Robert Venturi
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 135
Release: 1968
Genre: Electronic Book
ISBN: OCLC:959410184

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I Am a Monument

I Am a Monument
Author: Aron Vinegar
Publsiher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 249
Release: 2008
Genre: Architectural writing
ISBN: 9780262220828

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"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.

Between Silence and Light

Between Silence and Light
Author: Louis I. Kahn,John Lobell
Publsiher: National Geographic Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2008-09-09
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9781590306048

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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.

Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture

Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture
Author: Robert Venturi
Publsiher: The Museum of Modern Art
Total Pages: 142
Release: 1977
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 0870702823

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Foreword by Arthur Drexler. Introduction by Vincent Scully.

The Language of Post modern Architecture

The Language of Post modern Architecture
Author: Charles Jencks
Publsiher: New York : Rizzoli
Total Pages: 112
Release: 1977
Genre: Architecture, Modern
ISBN: UCSD:31822004624599

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Architecture as Signs and Systems

Architecture as Signs and Systems
Author: Robert Venturi,Denise Scott Brown
Publsiher: Belknap Press
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2004
Genre: Architectural design
ISBN: UOM:39015062827152

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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.

Relearning from Las Vegas

Relearning from Las Vegas
Author: Aron Vinegar,Michael J. Golec
Publsiher: U of Minnesota Press
Total Pages: 231
Release: 2009
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9780816650606

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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.