Learning from Las Vegas [SIGNED BY AUTHORS]
Cambridge: The MIT Press, 1972. First edition. Hardcover. Folio. XVI, [2], 188, [2]pp. Original printed glassine dust-jacket over cloth with gold lettering on spine and front cover. Color photograph pasted on front cover. Front free endpaper signed by Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown. In 1968 Robert Venturi and Scott Brown, together with Steven Izenour, led a team of students to document and analyze the Las Vegas Strip, perhaps the least likely subject for a serious research project imaginable. "Learning from Las Vegas" is the result of this project. The work 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 work is divided into three parts: Part I, "A Significance for A&P Parking Lots, or Learning from Las Vegas;" Part II, "Ugly and Ordinary Architecture, or the Decorated Shed;" Part III, Essays in the Ugly and Ordinary: Some Decorated Shed." It is profusely illustrated throughout with numerous plans, architectural drawing and b/w and color photographic reproductions. Errata slip included. Sporadic and minor chipping along edges of dust-jacket. Minor foxing on front free endpaper and half-title. DJ in overall good, binding and interior in very good condition. g+. Item #35513
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