New in the Bookshop: Las Vegas in the Rearview Mirror: The City in Theory, Photography, and Film
Jun 17, 2013
MARTINO STIERLI
The Graham Foundation bookshop is carrying the recently published grantee book, Las Vegas in the Rearview Mirror—a revaluation of the seminal architecture manifesto, Learning from Las Vegas, published in 1972 by the American architects Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown, and Steven Izenour that marks the turn in architectural theory from modernism to postmodernism. Unlike other studies on the topic, particular emphasis is given to analyzing the role of visual media, such as photography and film, not only for their representation of urban form, but also as epistemological tools with regard to architectural research. Using both text and image, Stierli assesses the broad intellectual impact of this architectural manifesto and explains why the lessons from Learning from Las Vegas remain relevant today.
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Martino Stierli, Las Vegas in the Rearview Mirror: The City in Theory, Photography, and Film
Binding: Pap
Pages: 352
Publisher: Getty Research Institute
Publication Date: April 2013
ISBN: 9781606061374
