Learning from Las Vegas - Revised Edition: The Forgotten Symbolism of Architectural Form

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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 ... More >>

Learning from Las Vegas - Revised Edition: The Forgotten Symbolism of Architectural Form