Learning from las vegas created a healthy controversy on its appearance in 1972, calling for architects to be more receptive to the tastes and values of common people and less immodest in their erections of heroic, selfaggrandizing monuments. Learning from las vegas denise scott brown, robert. Learning from las vegas is addressed both to directly interested partiesarchitects and plannersand to the fragmented majoritythe innocent bypassers who get gas at a nonpseudocolonial filling station in order to drive home to some architects monolithic superbrutal apartmented selfmonument. The forgotten symbolism of architectural form 8601404620546. See search results in the las vegas clark county library district digital collection. This revision includes the full texts of part i of the original, on the las vegas strip.
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