Learning from Las Vegas

The Forgotten Symbolism of Architectural Form

by Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown, Steven Izenour

1977 192 pages eng ★ 5.0 (3 ratings)

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 challen…