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"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 book itself, designed by MIT's 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. The 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.'" -- Publisher's description

Architecture --- Symbolism in architecture --- 72.01 --- Architectuurtheorie ; 20ste eeuw ; R. Venturi --- Venturi, Robert °1925 (°Philadelphia, Verenigde Staten) --- Scott Brown, Denise (Denise Lokofski) °1931 (°Nkana, Zambia) --- Architectuur ; Verenigde Staten ; Las Vegas --- Architectural symbolism --- Signs and symbols in architecture --- Architecture, Western (Western countries) --- Building design --- Buildings --- Construction --- Western architecture (Western countries) --- Art --- Building --- Architectuur ; theorie, filosofie, esthetica --- Design and construction --- Architecture, Primitive --- Architecture - Nevada - Las Vegas

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In 1966, architect Robert Venturi published Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture, a manifesto that became one of the twentieth century’s most important statements about architecture. Drawing on both vernacular and high-style sources, Venturi introduced new lessons from the buildings of architects who were well known, like Michelangelo and Alvar Aalto, and those whose work had then been forgotten, like Frank Furness and Edwin Lutyens. Arguing against the diagrammatic forms that dominated the field at that time, Venturi made a case instead for “the difficult whole.”

Architecture, Modern --- Architecture --- Venturi, Robert. --- Venturi, Rauch, and Scott Brown. --- Venturi and Rauch --- Venturi, Robert --- Scott Brown, Denise, --- Rauch, John K., --- Venturi, Robert, --- Brown, Denise Scott, --- Venturi, Rauch, and Scott Brown --- Rauch, John --- Venturi Scott Brown --- Scott Brown, Denise --- Philosophy. --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Rauch, John, --- 72.02 --- 72.02 Bouwtechniek: methoden en materialen --- Bouwtechniek: methoden en materialen --- Venturi and Rauch. --- Monographie --- 72.038 --- Architectuurgeschiedenis ; 1950 - 2000 --- 72.07 --- Architectuur ; 20e eeuw ; Venturi, Rauch & Scott Brown --- Venturi, Robert 1925-2018 (°Philadelphia, Verenigde Staten) --- Scott Brown, Denise (Denise Lokofski) °1931 (°Nkana, Zambia) --- Architecten. Stedenbouwkundigen A - Z --- Venturi Scott Brown and associates --- Brown, Denise Scott --- Venturi, Robert, 1925-2018 --- Scott Brown, Denise, 1931 --- -Rauch, John

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Dit boek, waarin een aantal radicale bewegingen in de architectuur in de jaren zestig met elkaar worden vergeleken, behandelt een periode in de architectuurgeschiedenis waarin revolutionaire idealen overheersten en dromen verwezenlijkt werden in tekeningen. Zowel de desillusie die op deze periode volgde als de huidige hernieuwde belangstelling ervoor liggen al in de uitgangspunten van deze bewegingen besloten. Dit boek verkent drie radicale kritieken van de modernistische architectuur aan de hand van het werk van de Situationistische Internationale, Venturi & Scott Brown en Archigram. Deze kritische reacties op hun voorgangers, gesitueerd op de drempel van een nieuwe tijd, van postmodernisme en wereldwijd kapitalisme, geven blijk van een scherpzinnig, kritisch inzicht in het modernisme en, bezien vanuit de huidige situatie, een vooruitziende blik. Tegelijkertijd waren hun dromen echter zo verweven met het modernistische project dat ze het hedendaagse architectuurdebat in een onhoudbare positie hebben gebracht.

architectuur --- architecture [discipline] --- Architecture --- anno 1960-1969 --- Modern movement (Architecture) --- Nineteen sixties --- Architecture, Modern --- Nineteen sixties. --- Philosophy. --- Internationale situationniste --- Influence --- 72.036 --- 72.03 --- 1960-1969 --- Internationaal Situationisme --- Situationisme --- Situationist International (SI) --- Venturi Scott Brown --- Venturi, Robert --- Scott Brown, Denise --- Archigram --- 72.039 --- 72.01 --- 20ste eeuw (architectuur) --- Twintigste eeuw (architectuur) --- Architectuur (geschiedenis) --- Architectuurgeschiedenis --- Moderne bouwkunst. Architectuur van de 20e eeuw --- Hedendaagse architectuur. Bouwkunst sinds 1960 --- Architectuurtheorie. Bouwprincipes. Esthetica van de bouwkunst. Filosofie van de bouwkunst --- 72.01 Architectuurtheorie. Bouwprincipes. Esthetica van de bouwkunst. Filosofie van de bouwkunst --- 72.039 Hedendaagse architectuur. Bouwkunst sinds 1960 --- 72.036 Moderne bouwkunst. Architectuur van de 20e eeuw --- Modern movement (Architecture). --- Influence. --- 1960s --- 60s (Twentieth century decade) --- Sixties (Twentieth century decade) --- Twentieth century --- Modernism (Architecture) --- Modernist architecture --- International style (Architecture) --- 72.01 Theory and philosophy of architecture. Principles of design, proportion, optical effect --- Theory and philosophy of architecture. Principles of design, proportion, optical effect --- Mouvement moderne (Architecture) --- Années soixante (Vingtième siècle) --- 72.038 --- Pop architectuur --- Venturi, Robert °1925 (°Philadelphia, Verenigde Staten) --- Scott Brown, Denise (Denise Lokofski) °1931 (°Nkana, Zambia) --- Architectuur en maatschappij ; protest ; jaren 60 --- Architectuur en technologie --- Architectuurgeschiedenis ; 1950 - 2000