Eyes that saw : architecture after Las Vegas / Stanislaus von Moos, Martino Stierli (eds.).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Moos, Stanislaus von, editor.

Stierli, Martino, 1974- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Architecture--Philosophy.

Architecture.

Architectural writing--United States.

Architectural writing.

Architecture--Nevada--Las Vegas.

Nevada--Las Vegas.

United States.

Venturi, Robert--Criticism and interpretation.

Venturi, Robert.

Scott Brown, Denise, 1931---Criticism and interpretation.

Scott Brown, Denise.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

501 pages : illustrations (some color), facsimiles, plans ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

Zurich : Scheidegger & Spiess ; New Haven : Yale School of Architecture, [2020]

Summary:

At the peak of the 1968/69 students' riots at American Universities, Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown, together with Steven Izenour, pursued their Design and Research Studio on the topic of Las Vegas at Yale School of Architecture. The results of this were condensed into the book Learning from Las Vegas that became a classic almost instantly upon its first publication in 1972. The treatise excited the 1970s architecture world and has remained influential to architects, teachers and theoreticians to the present day. Some forty years later, 'Eyes that Saw: Architecture after Las Vegas' offers a richly illustrated collection of essays by renowned scholars of art and architectural history, eminent architects, and artists, investigating Learning from Las Vegas and its heritage from various perspectives.

Contents:

Pedagogy and politics: making place and learning from Las Vegas / Eve Blau

Wrestling with meaning in architecture: learning from Las Vegas / Mary McLeod

The revolution is dead; long live the revolution / Valéry Didelon

The learning from Las Vegas case (1968-79) / Valéry Didelon

Las Vegas and the mobilized gaze / Martino Stierli

Pop precedents and contemporary contexts / Katherine Smith

Learning from learning / Beatriz Colomina

After Venturi / Dan Graham

From Dessau to Las Vegas / Peter Fischli

Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown's duck/decorated shed dyad in a historical perspective / Neil Levine

Billboarding and directional spaces / Karin Theunissen

A view from the gondola: notes on history, spectacle and modern architecture / Stanislaus von Moos

Chain city / Elizabeth Diller and David Allin

Las Vegas learning, Las Vegas teaching / Denise Scott Brown

Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown's memory / Venturi Scott Brown & Associates

What did you learn? / Robert Venturi

Haussmann backwards / David M. Schwarz

Architect or critic? Both/and / Rafael Moneo

After Las Vegas: five observations on Venturi Scott Brown / Stan Allen.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Albert M. Greenfield Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

3858818208

9783858818201

OCLC:

1041899725