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Relearning from Las Vegas /

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 archite...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Autres auteurs: Vinegar, Aron, Golec, Michael J.
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2009.
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Table des matières:
  • Introduction : instruction as provocation / Aron Vinegar and Michael J. Golec
  • Aesthetic or anaesthetic : a Nelson Goodman reading of the Las Vegas Strip / Ritu Bhatt
  • Format and layout in Learning from Las Vegas / Michael J. Golec
  • Photorealism, kitsch, and Venturi / Jean-Claude Lebensztejn
  • Theory as ornament / Karsten Harries
  • Mobilizing visions : representing the American landscape / Katherine Smith
  • On billboards and other signs around (Learning from) Las Vegas / John McMorrough
  • Signs taken for wonders / Dell Upton
  • The melodrama of expression and inexpression in the duck and decorated shed / Aron Vinegar
  • Learning from Las Vegas-- and Los Angeles and Reyner Banham / Nigel Whiteley.