Relearning from Las Vegas / Aron Vinegar and Michael J. Golec, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Vinegar, Aron.

Golec, Michael J.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture, Modern--20th century--Philosophy.

Architecture, Modern.

Venturi, Robert. Learning from Las Vegas.

Venturi, Robert.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (230 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Immediately on its publication in 1972, Learning from Las Vegas, by Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown, and Steven Izenour, was hailed as a transformative work in the history and theory of architecture, liberating those in architecture who were trying to find a way out of the straitjacket of architectural orthodoxies. Resonating far beyond the professional and institutional boundaries of the field, the book contributed to a thorough rethinking of modernism and was subsequently taken up as an early manifestation and progenitor of postmodernism. Going beyond analyzing the original text, the essa

Contents:

1. Aesthetic or anaesthetic : a Nelson Goodman reading of the Las Vegas Strip / Ritu Bhatt

2. Format and layout in learning from Las Vegas / Michael J. Golec

3. Photorealism, kitsch, and Venturi / Jean-Claude Lebensztejn

4. Theory as ornament / Karsten Harries

5. Mobilizing visions : representing the American landscape / Katherine Smith

6. On billboards and other signs around (learning from) Las Vegas / John McMorrough

7. Signs taken for wonders / Dell Upton

8. Of ducks, decorated sheds, and other minds / Aron Vinegar

9. Learning from Las Vegas

and Los Angeles and Reyner Banham / Nigel Whiteley

Contributors

Publication history

Index.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780816666393

0816666393

OCLC:

321075617