Title & Author:

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

Publication:

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

Description:

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

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Preface / Robert A.M. Stearn -- Introduction / Stanislaus von Moos and Martino Stierli -- I. Timelines and Contexts -- 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 -- II. Eyes That Saw -- 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 -- III. On Trial : The "Decorated Shed" -- 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 -- IV. What We Learned -- 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 -- Appendix.

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.

ISBN:

3858818208 (paperback)
9783858818201 (paperback)

Subject:

Venturi, Robert. Learning from Las Vegas Criticism, Textual.
Venturi, Robert Criticism and interpretation.
Scott Brown, Denise, 1931- Criticism and interpretation.
Architecture Philosophy.
Architectural writing United States.
Architecture Nevada Las Vegas.
Architecture Art d'écrire États-Unis.
Architectural writing.
Architecture.
Nevada Las Vegas.
United States.

Form/genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Added entries:

Moos, Stanislaus von, editor.
Stierli, Martino, 1974- editor.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 308535
Call No.: BIB 253901
Status: Available