Learning from Las Vegas - Symbolism of Architectural Form (Paper) 2e - Couverture souple

Venturi, Robert; Brown, Denise Scott; Izenour, Steven

 
9780262720069: Learning from Las Vegas - Symbolism of Architectural Form (Paper) 2e
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 026272006X ISBN 13 : 9780262720069
Editeur : The MIT Press, 1977

Synopsis

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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À propos de l?auteur

Robert Venturi is an award-winning architect and an influential writer, teacher, artist, and designer. His work includes includes the Sainsbury Wing of London's National Galler; renovation of the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego; dozens of major academic projects; and the groundbreaking Vanna Venturi House.

Denise Scott Brown is an architect, writer, and planner. She and Robert Venturi are founding principals of the influential architectural firm Venturi, Scott Brown, and Associates (VSBA), whose work and ideas have influenced generations of architects and planners.

Steven Izenour (1940-2001) was coauthor of Learning from Las Vegas (MIT Press, 1977) and a principal in the Philadelphia firm Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates, Inc (VSBA). His most noted projects at VSBA include Philadelphia's Basco showroom, the George D. Widener Memorial Treehouse at the Philadelphia Zoo, the Camden Children's Garden, and the house he designed for his parents in Stony Creek, Connecticut.

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Éditeur
The MIT Press
Date d'édition
1977
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
026272006X
ISBN 13 
9780262720069
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
192
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0262220202 ISBN 13 :  9780262220200
Editeur : The MIT Press, 1977
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