Las Vegas in the Rearview Mirror: The City in Theory, Photography, and Film - Couverture souple

Stierli, .

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1606061372 ISBN 13 : 9781606061374

Editeur : Getty Publications, 2013

Synopsis

Learning from Las Vegas, published in 1972 by the architects Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown, and Steven Izenour, marks the turn in architectural theory from modern to post-modern. Martino Stierli explores the significance of this controversial publication by situating it in the artistic, architectural, and urbanist discourse of the 1960s and '70s, and by evaluating the book's enduring influence on visual studies and architectural research. Stierli provides an original, in-depth analysis of the postmodern image of the city and the representation of urban form in visual media, graphics, and typography.

Referencing cinematic visualization, the authors of Learning from Las Vegas documented a sprawling postwar American city from a moving car. Stierli examines this methodology against the background of contemporary pop and conceptual art, including the work of artists Ed Ruscha and Stephen Shore. Using both text and image, Stierli assesses the broad intellectual impact of this architectural manifesto and explains why the lessons from Learning from Las Vegas remain relevant today.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Martino Stierli is the Philip Johnson Curator of Architecture and Design at the Museum of Modern Art and the SNF Professor of the History of Architecture at the University of Zurich.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Getty Publications
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1606061372
• ISBN 13: 9781606061374
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 352
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• Personne responsable: non disponible