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Learning from Las Vegas
Auteur(s)	Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown, Steve Izenour
Land	Verenigde Staten
Oorspronkelijke taal	Engels
Onderwerp	Las Vegas, Architectuur, Postmodernisme
Uitgever	MIT Press
Uitgegeven	1972
ISBN	9780262220156
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Learning from Las Vegas is een boek door Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown en Steve Izenour uit 1972.

Geschiedenis

Het boek is ontstaan uit een artikel van Venturi en Scott Brown in het maandblad Architectural Forum uit maart 1968, getiteld 'Significance for A&P Parking Lots, or Learning from Las Vegas'.

Inhoud

The physical book itself, designed by iconic designer Muriel Cooper, was hailed as a masterpiece of modernist design, but the book’s design struck the authors as too monumental for a text that praised the ugly and ordinary over the heroic and monumental. MIT Press published a revised version in 1977 - a modest paperback that the authors felt was more in keeping with the argument of the book - and the original Cooper-designed book fell out of print and became a highly sought-after collectors’ item; it now sells for thousands of dollars in the rare book market, while the author-redesigned paperback has remained continuously in print at a price affordable to students.

Now, decades after the original hardcover edition sold out, the MIT Press is publishing a facsimile edition of the original large-format Cooper-designed edition of Learning from Las Vegas, complete with translucent glassine wrap. This edition also features a spirited preface by Denise Scott Brown, looking back on the creation of the book and explaining her and Robert Venturi’s reservations about the original design.

Learning from Las Vegas begins with the Las Vegas Strip and proceeds to "Ugly and Ordinary Architecture, or the Decorated Shed," on symbolism in architecture and the iconography of urban sprawl. As Scott Brown says in her introduction, the book “upended sacred cows…would not bad-mouth bad taste, and redefined architectural research.” (https://www.naibooksellers.nl/learning-from-las-vegas-facsimile-edition-robert-venturi-denise-scott-brown-steven-izenour.html)

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In Nederland kreeg het boek in de jaren '00 van de 21e eeuw aandacht door onder meer Sjoerd Soeters en (...)

https://archinect.com/features/article/149970924/learning-from-learning-from-las-vegas-with-denise-scott-brown-part-i-the-foundation

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