Here is a plea for proper architectural humanity and humility as well as a plan for accommodating the desires and values of ordinary people who are too often being dragged along on architectural ego trips and uplift programs.
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Here is a plea for proper architectural humanity and humility as well as a plan for accommodating the desires and values of ordinary people who are too often being dragged along on architectural ego trips and uplift programs.
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Add this copy of Learning From Las Vegas: Facsimile Edition to cart. $60.00, like new condition, Sold by Craig Olson Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Islesboro, ME, UNITED STATES, published 2017 by The MIT Press.
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Fine in Very Good jacket. Originally published in 1972, this book was groundbreaking in its deep dive into what we now think of as vernacular architecture, but modern and contemporary, and how the urban landscape, fueled by an automobile culture, is ever changing. First Printing. xvi, 188 pp. Folio. Light wear and scuffing to dust jacket. Interior clean and crisp.
Add this copy of Learning From Las Vegas (the Mit Press): Facsimile to cart. $93.29, new condition, Sold by Paperbackshop rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Bensenville, IL, UNITED STATES, published 2017 by MIT Press Ltd.
Add this copy of Learning from Las Vegas to cart. $99.90, new condition, Sold by Books 4 All rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Spring Branch, TX, UNITED STATES, published 2017 by Mit Press.
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New in new dust jacket. In original unopened shrinkwrap. Ship in sturdy box with bubble wrap. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 216 p. Contains: Illustrations, black & white, Illustrations, color. Mit Press. Audience: General/trade.
Add this copy of Learning From Las Vegas (Facsimile) to cart. $100.00, new condition, Sold by Hennessey + Ingalls rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Los Angeles, CA, UNITED STATES, published by Mit Press.
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New. 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. '
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