Learning from Las Vegas, Revised Edition: The Forgotten Symbolism of Architectural Form (Revised)

Title: Learning from Las Vegas, Revised Edition: The Forgotten Symbolism of Architectural Form (Revised) Author: Robert Venturi ISBN: 9780262720069 Publisher: The MIT Press Published: 1977 Binding: Paperback Language: English Condition: New New from the publisher Architecture & Design 1456290 Publisher Description: "Their insight and analysis, reasoned back through the history of style and symbolism and forward to the recognition of a new kind of building that responds directly to speed, mobility, the superhighway and changing life styles, is the kind of art history and theory that is rarely produced. The rapid evolution of modern architecture from Le Corbusier to Brazil to Miami to the roadside motel in a brief 40-year span, with all the behavioral esthetics involved, is something neither architect nor historian has deigned to notice...." -- Ada Louise Huxtable, "The New York TImes" "Learning from Las Vegas" created a healthy controve