Las Vegas Studio: Images From the Archive of Robert Venturi and Denise: Images from the Archive of Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown - Softcover

Hilar Stadler; Martino Stierli

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3858817643 ISBN 13: 9783858817648

Publisher: Scheidegger, 2015

Synopsis

• Only book in the market to present Venturi, Scott Brown and Izenour's iconic images in large size, colour and top-quality printing
• The images are a key element of the field research on which Learning from Las Vegas was based
• The images have inspired various artists and been influential also to film directors
• Learning from Las Vegas is one of the most influential 20th-century architectural texts
• The Las Vegas Studio exhibition will be on display at the 2015 Rencontres Arles Photographie in France. Further stations planned

Since it was first published in 1972, Learning from Las Vegas has become a classic in the theory of architecture and one of the most influential architecture texts of the 20th century. The treatise by Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown and Steven Izenour enjoys a reputation as a signal work of postmodernism in architecture and urban planning. None of the book's editions have ever featured high-quality colour images the authors produced to illustrate their argument. Las Vegas Studio, originally published in hardback in 2008, was the first publication ever to present these significant photographs in large colour reproductions.

Now available again in a new paperback edition, this unique book features 102 of these iconic images and film stills, alongside essays by Swiss scholars Stanislaus von Moos and Hans Ulrich Obrist exploring how the pictures contemplate the phenomenon of the modern city. Also included is a discussion with Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas and Swiss artist Peter Fischli that speaks to the strong and lasting influence these images still have on contemporary art and movies.

Also available: A Difficult Whole: A Reference Book on the Work of Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown ISBN 9783906027845

About this title

About the Author

Hilar Stadler, born 1963, read art history and is director of Museum im Bellpark in Kriens, near Lucerne, Switzerland. Martino Stierli, born 1974, has been appointed the MoMA s Philip Johnson Chief Curator of Architecture and Design as of March 2015. He has been a senior research assistant at ETH Zurich's Institute for the History and Theory of Architecture (gta) 2011 12, a Fellow of the Getty Institute in Los Angeles in 2012, and an SNSF Professor for the History of Architecture and Art at University of Zurich since 2012.

Edition details

• Publisher: Scheidegger
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3858817643
• ISBN 13: 9783858817648
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 196