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I am a monument : on Learning from Las Vegas / Aron Vinegar.
Main entry:

Vinegar, Aron.

Title & Author:

I am a monument : on Learning from Las Vegas / Aron Vinegar.

Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2008.

Description:

x, 234 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-227) and index.
Approaching Las Vegas in Wonder and Ambivalence -- Our City of Words -- Of Ducks, Decorated Sheds, and Other Minds -- Blinking Signs -- Reducks, 1972, 1977 -- Appendix: Vincent Scully, Unpublished Introduction to Learning from Las Vegas.
Dust jacket.
Summary:

"Learning from Las Vegas, originally published by the MIT Press in 1972, was one of the most influential and controversial architectural books of its era. Thirty-five years later, it remains a perennial bestseller and a definitive theoretical text. Its authors - architects Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown, and Steven Izenour - famously used the Las Vegas Strip to argue the virtues of the "ordinary and ugly" above the "heroic and original" qualities of architectural modernism. Learning from Las Vegas not only moved architecture to the center of cultural debates, it changed our ideas about what architecture was and could be." "In this provocative rereading of an iconic text, Aron Vinegar argues that Learning from Las Vegas is not only of historical interest but of absolute relevance to current critical debates in architectural and visual culture. Vinegar argues that to read Learning from Las Vegas only as an exemplary postmodernist text - to understand it, for example, as a call for pastiche or as ironic provocation - is to underestimate its deeper critical and ethical meaning, and to miss the underlying dialectic between skepticism and the ordinary, expression and the deadpan, that runs through the text."--Jacket.

ISBN:

9780262220828 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
0262220822 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
9780262517522
0262517523

Subject:

Venturi, Robert. Learning from Las Vegas Criticism, Textual.
Venturi, Robert 1925-2018
Scott Brown, Denise, 1931- Criticism and interpretation.
Venturi, Robert, 1925-2018.
Scott Brown, Denise, 1931-
Izenour, Steven, 1940-2001.
Venturi, Robert.
Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer Bitterfeld
Architectural writing United States.
Book design Massachusetts Cambridge History 20th century.
Architecture Art d'écrire États-Unis.
Livres Conception graphique Massachusetts Cambridge Histoire 20e siècle.
21.60 architecture: general.
21.73 urban development (architecture)
Architectural writing.
Book design.
Postmoderne
Architektur
Architekturkritik
Architekturtheorie
Städtebau
Architectual theories.
City planning.
Modernism (culture)
Massachusetts Cambridge.
United States.
Las Vegas, Nev.
Las Vegas.
USA.

Form/genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 259014
Call No.: BIB 189864
Copy: c. 1
Status: Available

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