Seventeen essays by two prominent American architects examine prominent buildings of the past and present and discuss the theoretical basis for modern design

A View from the Campidoglio: Selected Essays 1953-1984 (ICON EDITIONS)

Arts & Photography

Venturi, Robert

Brown, Denise Scott

Architecture

Harper&Row

A fascimile edition of the long-out-of-print large-format edition designed by design icon Muriel Cooper.
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; it now sells for thousands of dollars in the rare book market, while the author-redesigned paperback has remained continuously in print at a price affordable to students. 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. This edition also features a spirited preface by Denise Scott Brown, looking back on the creation of the book and explaining her and Robert Venturi's reservations about the original design.
Learning from Las Vegas begins with the Las Vegas Strip and proceeds to "Ugly and Ordinary Architecture, or the Decorated Shed," on symbolism in architecture and the iconography of urban sprawl. As Scott Brown says in her introduction, the book “upended sacred cows … would not bad-mouth bad taste, and redefined architectural research.”

Learning from Las Vegas, facsimile edition (Mit Press)

Izenour, Steven

The MIT Press

Urban Concepts: Rise and Fall of Community Architecture

St.Martin's Press

Urban Concepts - Denise Scott Brown - Profile 83 (Architectural Design Profile)

wiley

Since the beginning of the century, the field of architecture has fervently turned its attention to documenting the contemporary urban condition. Every city has been examined as a repository of architectural concepts, scrutinized as an urban manifesto, and recorded as a series of found objects. The Ordinary articulates a potential genealogy for this practice and for the genre of books that derived from it. Organized around conversations with the authors of three seminal texts that document the city―Rem Koolhaas on Delirious New York, Denise Scott Brown on Learning from Las Vegas, and Yoshiharu Tsukamoto on Made in Tokyo―this volume traces the history of these “books on cities” by examining the material they recorded, the findings they established, the arguments they advanced, and the projects they promoted. These conversations also question the assumptions underlying this practice and whether in its ubiquity it still remains a space of opportunity.

The Ordinary: Recordings

KOOLHAAS, Rem

Tsukamoto, Yoshiharu

Columbia Books on Architecture and the City

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