Learning from Las Vegas - Revised Edition: The Forgotten Symbolism of Architectural Form

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.

Series: The MIT Press

Paperback: 192 pages

Publisher: The MIT Press; revised edition edition (June 15 1977)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 026272006X

ISBN-13: 978-0262720069

Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 0.5 inches

Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces