The Design Capital Of The U.S.

"In their landmark book, 'Learning From Las Vegas,' Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown and Steven Izenour argued that the city was a more significant architectural influence than Rome...[Hugh Fogel believes it is] a place where sexy, high-technology modernism will be developed not just for the cognoscenti but for the masses, a hybrid of Milan and Hollywood... Maybe so. But at some point the Fogels' experiment will have to confront the fact that Las Vegas is still a vast economic engine devoted to the production of novelty, not high culture...Modernism has become the latest theme in a city that has excelled in transforming every movement in history into a theme."