Learning From Las Vegas by Robert Venturi - ISBN: 9780262036962
Hardcover
Vegas: Architecture’s unlikely teacher, in a rare design masterpiece returns.

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  • Hardcover

    216 pages

  • Release Date

    22 September 2017

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Summary

A facsimile edition of the long-out-of-print large-format edition designed by design icon Muriel Cooper.

Upon its publication by the MIT Press in 1972, Learning from Las Vegas was immediately influential and controversial. The authors made an argument that was revolutionary for its time—that the billboards and casinos of Las Vegas were worthy of architectural attention—and offered a challenge for contemporary architects obsessed with the heroic and monumental. The physical bo…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780262036962
ISBN-10:0262036967
Author:Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown, Steven Izenour
Publisher:MIT Press Ltd
Imprint:MIT Press
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:216
Release Date:22 September 2017
Weight:2.00kg
Dimensions:356mm x 267mm
Series:Learning From Las Vegas
About The Author

Robert Venturi

Robert Venturi is an award-winning architect and an influential writer, teacher, artist, and designer. His work 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 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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