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Returning to Las Vegas

Posted by: Tim Halbur

23 December 2009 - 7:00am

Nicolai Ourousoff pays a visit to an exhibit at Yale that looks back at 'Learning From Las Vegas,' the famed book on Sin City architecture from the 1970s.

Robert Venturi was one of the brains behind the book.

"Mr. Venturi and Ms. Scott Brown, who had just married and would soon be business partners, were on a search for a way out of the dead end of postwar Modernism, whose early hopes had by then deteriorated into a dreary functionalism. The book they produced four years later, 'Learning From Las Vegas,' was one of the last of the big architectural manifestos and a heartfelt embrace of American popular culture that would be hard to imagine anyone attempting today."

Full Story: The Lessons of Las Vegas Still Hold Surprises
Source: The New York Times, December 22, 2009
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