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Learning from Las Vegas

Contexts, 2012
The social analysts, Barbara G. Brents, Michael Ian Borer, Annelise Orleck, Sharon Zukin, and Matt Wray, offer contrasting views of the plastic fantastic city of Las Vegas.
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La controverse - Learning from Las Vegas

2011
La publication par les architectes américains Robert Venturi et Denise Scott Brown de Learning from Las Vegas, d’abord sous forme d’articles puis de livre, a entraîné à partir de 1968 une controverse sans équivalent dans l’histoire moderne de l’architecture.
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Still learning from Las Vegas? : themeing : trash or treasure

2020
Themed architecture, as exemplified on the Las Vegas Strip, is usually ignored or derided by the ‘serious’ architectural community. This thesis challenges this position. The commercial success o f themed developments has lead to an enormous growth in the application o f this approach to building design. Can architects disregard this emerging force?
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“The Significance of A&P Parking Lots, or Learning from Las Vegas”

2013
Learning from the existing landscape is a way of being revolutionary for an architect. Not the obvious way, which is to tear down Paris and begin again, as Le Corbusier suggested in the 1920s, but another way which is more tolerant: that is to question how we look at things.
Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown
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Epilogue :Learning More From Las Vegas

1999
Abstract This is obviously not the last word on Las Vegas. It is not even the last word on Las Vegas today-which, for this team of reporters, means Las Vegas as we found it between fall 1996 and fall HJ!J8-lct alone Las Vegas yesterday or Las Vegas tomorrow.
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What can we really learn from Las Vegas?

Journal of Urban Design, 2019
Fifty years ago, Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown and Steven Izenour, with 13 students from the Yale School of Architecture, made a 10-day study trip to Las Vegas.
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The international financial architecture after the Asian crisis: learning from Las Vegas?

Journal of International Development, 1999
Recent attempts to diagnose the causes of the Asian financial crisis are examined in this paper. The view, supported in the IMF and other influential sources, that it was the outcome of a market response to policy deficiencies is subject to critical scrutiny.
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Learning from Las Vegas Redux: Steve Wynn and the New Business of Art

2020
Steve Wynn, American businessman, casino magnate, and luxury hotel owner, is also one of the world’s most prolific art collectors. With a collection valued at over half a billion dollars, Wynn has become as famous for his art collection as he has for placing many of his most prized works on public display in his properties.
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Learning from Las Vegas

The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 1974
Monroe C. Beardsley, Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown, Steven Izenour   +3 more
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The Decreative Impulse: The Last Page of Learning from Las Vegas

112th ACSA Annual Meeting Proceedings, Disruptors on the Edge
This paper delves into the ‘decreative impulse’ briefly mentioned on the last page of Learning from Las Vegas, unraveling its roots within the disruption of modernism initiated by Venturi and Scott Brown and revitalizing decreation’s disruptive capacity.
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