Vinegar, Aron.

I Am a Monument : On Learning from Las Vegas. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (249 pages) - The MIT Press Series . - The MIT Press Series .

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 - Approaching Las Vegas in Wonder and Ambivalence -- 2 - Our City of Words -- 3 - Of Ducks, Decorated Sheds, and Other Minds -- 4 - A Monument for Everyone and No One -- 5 - Reducks, 1972, 1977 -- Appendix: Vincent Scully, Unpublished Introduction to Learning from Las Vegas -- Notes -- Index.

Rereading one of the most influential architectural books of the twentieth century--as intellectual project, graphic design landmark, and prescient introduction to issues of concern today.

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Venturi, Robert.-Learning from Las Vegas-Criticism, Textual.
Architectural writing-United States.
Book design-Massachusetts-Cambridge-History-20th century.


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