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082			_aARCH _bVEN
100			_aVenturi, Robert
245		0	_aLearning from Las Vegas: Symbolism of Architectural Form
260			_aCambridge _bMIT Press _c1977
300			_a208 _c22.66 x 15.37 x 1.35 cm _rPaperback
504			_aLearning from Las Vegas created a healthy controversy on its appearance in 1972, calling for architects to be more receptive to the tastes and values of "common" people and less immodest in their erections of "heroic," self-aggrandizing monuments. This revision includes the full texts of Part I of the original, on the Las Vegas strip, and Part II, "Ugly and Ordinary Architecture, or the Decorated Shed," a generalization from the findings of the first part on symbolism in architecture and the iconography of urban sprawl. (The final part of the first edition, on the architectural work of the firm Venturi and Rauch, is not included in the revision.) The new paperback edition has a smaller format, fewer pictures, and a considerably lower price than the original. There are an added preface by Scott Brown and a bibliography of writings by the members of Venturi and Rauch and about the firm's work.
650			_aArchitecture
650			_aBuilding
650			_aPublic buildings
700			_aBrown, D. Scott _eCo-author
942			_cBKS
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