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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 challenge for contemporary architects obsessed with the heroic and monumental. The physical book itself, designed by MIT's iconic designer Muriel Cooper, was hailed as a masterpiece of modernist design, but the book's design struck the authors as too monumental for a text that praised the ugly and ordinary over the heroic and monumental. The MIT Press published a revised version in 1977 - a modest paperback that the authors felt was more in keeping with the argument of the book - and the original Cooper-designed book fell out of print and became a highly sought-after collectors' item. Now, decades after the original hardcover edition sold out, the MIT Press is publishing a facsimile edition of the original large-format Cooper-designed edition of Learning from Las Vegas, complete with translucent glassine wrap.

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Book category Books in English The arts Architecture

• Full title: Learning From Las Vegas
• Author: Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown, Steven Izenour
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 216
• EAN: 9780262036962
• ISBN: 9780262036962
• ID: 16288430
• Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
• Weight: 2018 g
• Dimensions: 282 × 369 × 26 mm
• Date of publishing: 08. September 2017

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