Is the nation's fastest-growing city also 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."
Thanks to Abhijeet Chavan
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