Relearning from Las Vegas
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Relearning from Las Vegas
By (Author) Aron Vinegar
Edited by Michael J. Golec
Contributions by Ritu Bhatt
Contributions by Karsten Harries
University of Minnesota Press
University of Minnesota Press
17th February 2009
United States
Classifications
Professional and Scholarly
Non Fiction
720.973
Physical Properties
Paperback
208
Width 178mm, Height 254mm, Spine 13mm
Description
Evaluates for the first time one of the foundational works in architecture criticism. Immediately on its publication in 1972, Learning from Las Vegas, by Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown, and Steven Izenour, was hailed as a transformative work in the history and theory of architecture, liberating those in architecture who were trying to find a way out of the straitjacket of architectural orthodoxies. Resonating far beyond the professional and institutional boundaries of the field, the book contributed to a thorough rethinking of modernism and was subsequently taken up as an early manifestation and progenitor of postmodernism.
