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Learning from Las Vegas (fac-similé), Denis Scott Brown, Robert Venturi, Steven Izenour
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Learning from Las Vegas (fac-similé)

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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.

  • Denis Scott Brown, Robert Venturi, Steven Izenour
  • The MIT Press
  • Language English
  • Release2017
  • Pages216
  • Format36 x 27.5 cm
  • ISBN9780262036962

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