Learning from Las Vegas
Nonfiction work
By: Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown, and Steven Izenour
Date: 1972
Source: Venturi, Robert, Denise Scott Brown, and Steven Izenour. Learning from Las Vegas: The Forgotten Symbolism of Architectural Form. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1972, xi–xiii.
About the Author: Robert Venturi (1925–) has been credited with many things—notably of being one of the founders of postmodern architecture, restoring credence to both historical perspective and the pop world, and saving the world from being bored to death by modernist architectural design. He authored, or coauthored, books on the theory of architecture and he won the coveted Pritzker Prize in 1991.
Denise Scott Brown (1931–) Venturi's wife and partner in their Philadelphia architectural firm, is an architect, planner, author, and educator. Together, Scott Brown and Venturi won the National...
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