Learning From Las Vegas: The Forgotten Symbolism of Architectural Form (The MIT Press)

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"To protest her exclusion from the Pritzker Club, (the architect) Scott Brown born in 1931 made herself a visible absence at the award ceremony in honor of her husband " ( Bob, not the sponge, Robert Venturi her husband (1925-2018) and architect partner who got for himself ALONE Pritzker prize 1991).This book is the revised edition edited as a "cheap" book so that any student could buy it whereas the first edition was said to be costing a lot of money even the reprint of the first edition (we have read this on specialized articles). One reason of this high cost of the First edition may have been the fact that one of the great mind of the XXe century working for the MIT Press and who designed the book Learning from Las Vegas (LFLV) was Madame Muriel COOPER (1925-1994): Muriel was also the co-founder of the Visible Language Workshop which will become the physical language workshop of the MIT, a revolutionnary laboratory where information landscapes were beeing set up and built for anyone who would use a screen in her or his personnal computer.When first published, the book LFLV and the way it was designed as a paper document by Muriel Cooper created also a scandal. So either the content of the YALE univ. workshops/seminars sumarized in this "Learning from Las Vegas" book and either the first container of the book it self as a metonymy of the process were photographs of major moments of " in progress " modern architecture critical thinkings .This revised edition (which does not restaure the memory of Madame Muriel Cooper's work) includes a preface written by Madame Denise Scott Brown.

It introduces a unique way of looking at surroundings with a research-based approach and tells how to have a deep sense of architectural analysis by changing the point of view through apparently ridiculous urban elements.

This book helped me a LOT with my dissertation, I love it, it had a lot of very interesting points which helped me pass my degree. The writing is a bit stumbly but the information is there. I still re-read it once in a while even though I graduated about four years ago :)