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I AM A MONUMENT: ON LEARNING FROM LAS VEGAS (MIT PRESS) By Aron Vinegar
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Very good
- Seller notes
- “Fine, except for remainder mark on bottom pages. Text clean, binding tight.”
- Book Title
- I AM A MONUMENT: On Learning from Las Vegas
- ISBN-10
- 0262220822
- Educational Level
- Adult & Further Education
- Personalized
- No
- Level
- Advanced
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- United States
- Unit Quantity
- 1
- ISBN
- 9780262220828
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
MIT Press
ISBN-10
0262220822
ISBN-13
9780262220828
eBay Product ID (ePID)
65977874
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
208 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
I AMA Monument : on Learning from Las Vegas
Subject
Authorship, History / Contemporary (1945-), Book, Individual Architects & Firms / General, General, Criticism
Publication Year
2008
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Design, Architecture, Language Arts & Disciplines
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.8 in
Item Weight
28.6 Oz
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Width
8.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2007-045988
Reviews
"Learning from Las Vegasstill manages to provoke strong reactions and the sort of glib dismissal that is one way of warding off the challenge of a truly radical argument. Vinegar's wide-ranging discussion refreshes and reopens a set of questions that have only grown more pressing in recent years, giving their original formulation the scholarly and critical attention they clearly deserve." -Alan Plattus, Professor of Architecture, Yale University
Dewey Edition
22
Grade From
College Graduate Student
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
720.9793/135
Synopsis
Rereading one of the most influential architectural books of the twentieth century-as intellectual project, graphic design landmark, and prescient introduction to issues of concern today., Rereading one of the most influential architectural books of the twentieth century--as intellectual project, graphic design landmark, and prescient introduction to issues of concern today. Learning from Las Vegas , originally published by the MIT Press in 1972, was one of the most influential and controversial architectural books of its era. Forty years later, it remains a perennial bestseller and a definitive theoretical text. Its authors--architects Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown, and Steven Izenour--famously used the Las Vegas Strip to argue the virtues of the "ordinary and ugly" above the "heroic and original" qualities of architectural modernism. Learning from Las Vegas not only moved architecture to the center of cultural debates, it changed our ideas about what architecture was and could be. In this provocative rereading of an iconic text, Aron Vinegar argues that to read Learning from Las Vegas only as an exemplary postmodernist text--to understand it, for example, as a call for pastiche or as ironic provocation--is to underestimate its deeper critical and ethical meaning, and to miss the underlying dialectic between skepticism and the ordinary, expression and the deadpan, that runs through the text. Especially revealing is Vinegar's close analysis of the differences between the first 1972 edition, designed for the MIT Press by Muriel Cooper, and the "revised" edition of 1977, which was radically stripped down and largely redesigned by Denise Scott Brown.
LC Classification Number
NA2540.V56 2008
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- i***k (2871)- Feedback left by buyer.More than a year agoVerified purchaseFast shipping. Excellent 1988 journal publication. Very secure packaging. Vg customer service. Vg communication. A1 tops. Highly recommendedNew German Critique 44 Spring/Summer 1988 Special Issue on the Historikerstreit (#144843439834)
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Seller feedback (107)
- i***k (2871)- Feedback left by buyer.More than a year agoVerified purchaseFast shipping. Excellent 1988 journal publication. Very secure packaging. Vg customer service. Vg communication. A1 tops. Highly recommendedNew German Critique 44 Spring/Summer 1988 Special Issue on the Historikerstreit (#144843439834)
- o***e (928)- Feedback left by buyer.More than a year agoVerified purchaseBeautiful book, carefully packed, promptly shipped, thank you!Vittorio Gregotti by Joseph Rykwert and Vittorio Gregotti (1997, Hardcover) (#144976932788)
- 8***r (373)- Feedback left by buyer.More than a year agoVerified purchaseArrived 9 days early and now I can start my project. Seller got right on shipping. Reasonable price as he no longer needs it. A good guy offering quality stuff, so buy your tool needs here, folks. Thank you for helping me, Tom.Reply from: wensingtom- Feedback replied by seller wensingtom.- Feedback replied by seller wensingtom.Thank you, David, much appreciated. It's true I am cleaning out my storage locker, and the thinking is if I can help people out, great. Enjoy the project.5 Black & Decker Bi-Metal Jig Saw Blades Mod. 21030 / 49514 24TPI (#144831237899)