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.

Related Grant:

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

CHRISTOPHER BASCOM RAWLINS

Edited by Alastair Gordon

The Graham Foundation bookshop is carrying the recently published grantee book, Fire Island Modernist that showcases the remarkable series of beach homes designed by the little known architect Horace Gifford in the 1960s. Gifford was instrumental in shaping the landscape and culture of Fire Island, New York during an era when it served as a vacation destination for middle-class families, a retreat for celebrities such as Marilyn Monroe and Elizabeth Taylor, and a haven for an increasingly vibrant gay community. Gifford’s austerely beautiful pavilions of cedar and glass are both uniquely modernist and responsive to the fragile barrier island landscape. Christopher Rawlins along with editor Alastair Gordon have produced a careful study of Gifford’s architectural and cultural legacy in Fire Island Modernist that includes indulgent photographs alongside detailed floor plans and text.

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Press:

The New York Times, The Architecture of Seduction, Guy Trebay

New York Magazine, Sun Rooms, Carl Swanson

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Binding: Hbk
Pages: 204 
Publisher: Metropolis Books/ Gordon de Vries Studio 
Publication Date: May 2013
ISBN: 9781938922091