Learning From Las Vegas : The Forgotten Symbolism Of Architectural Form

 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.

• Format Paperback | 208 pages
• Dimensions 152 x 229 x 11mm | 340g
• Publication date 11 Jul 2005
• Publisher MIT Press Ltd
• Imprint Mit Press
• Publication City/Country Cambridge, United States
• Language English
• Edition Revised
• Edition Statement revised edition
• Illustrations note 180 color illus., 358 b&w illus.; 538 Illustrations, unspecified
• ISBN10 026272006X
• ISBN13 9780262720069