Learning from Las Vegas created a healthy controversy on its appearance in 1972, calling for architects to be more receptive to the tastes and values of "common" people and less immodest in their erections of "heroic," self-aggrandizing monuments. This revision includes the full texts of Part I of the original, on the Las Vegas strip, and Part II, "Ugly and Ordinary Architecture, or the Decorated Shed," a generalization from the findings of the first part on symbolism in architecture and the iconography of urban sprawl. (The final part of the first edition, on the architectural work of the firm Venturi and Rauch, is not included in the revision.) The new paperback edition has a smaller format, fewer pictures, and a considerably lower price than the original. There are an added preface by Scott Brown and a bibliography of writings by the members of Venturi and Rauch and about the firm's work.
Denise Scott Brown Livres
Denise Scott Brown est une architecte, urbaniste et écrivaine influente dont le travail théorique et les conceptions architecturales ont façonné le paysage du XXe siècle. Aux côtés de son partenaire, Robert Venturi, elle a forgé une approche de l'architecture qui rejetait le modernisme orthodoxe et embrassait l'étalement urbain et l'architecture vernaculaire américains. Ses écrits, y compris des publications fondamentales, explorent le symbolisme des formes architecturales, influençant notre perception de l'environnement urbain. Scott Brown continue d'être une voix prolifique dans le domaine de l'architecture et de l'urbanisme.
Graphic Design Theory
- 151pages
- 6 heures de lecture
Graphic Design Theory presents groundbreaking, primary texts from the most important historical and contemporary design thinkers. From Aleksandr Rodchenko’s "Who We Are: Manifesto of the Constructivist Group" to Kenya Hara’s "Computer Technology and Design," this essential volume provides the necessary foundation for contemporary critical vocabulary and thought. Graphic Design Theory is organized in three sections: "Creating the Field" traces the evolution of graphic design over the course of the early 1900s, including influential avant-garde ideas of futurism, constructivism, and the Bauhaus; "Building on Success" covers the mid- to late twentieth century and considers the International Style, modernism, and postmodernism; and "Mapping the Future" opens at the end of the last century and includes current discussions on legibility, social responsibility, and new media. Striking color images illustrate each of the movements discussed and demonstrate the ongoing relationship between theory and practice. A brief commentary prefaces each text, providing a cultural and historical framework through which the work can be evaluated.