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.
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Architecture, Urban studies, Postmodernism, Advertising, USA
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Cambridge
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2013
Number of pages
208 pages
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9780262720069
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Open stacks
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Yes
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Yes
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711 Ven
Volumes
1
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