Evaluates for the first time one of the foundational works in architecture criticism. Immediately on its publication in 1972; Learning from Las Vegas; by Robert Venturi; Denise Scott Brown; and Steven Izenour; was hailed as a transformative work in the history and theory of architecture; liberating those in architecture who were trying to find a way out of the straitjacket of architectural orthodoxies. Resonating far beyond the professional and institutional boundaries of the field; the book contributed to a thorough rethinking of modernism and was subsequently taken up as an early manifestation and progenitor of postmodernism.
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