Robert Venturi - Learning from Las Vegas

16 March 2007 | Category: Life Log

Robert Venturi - Learning from Las Vegas

I’m suppose to do this reading on “Learning from Las Vegas” which I think it is a boring subject, probably because it is culture’s class assignment and I really suck big time in culture, especially during presentation - that is when my balls shrink to the size of a raisins.

Basically the whole book is about Robert Venturi and his idea on post-modernism, he argued that modernism’s penchant for heroic and abstract forms should be replaced with an architecture that is “ugly and ordinary”. He maintained that Las Vegas is in fact the victory of symbols-in-space over-form in-space.

Robert Venturi also argued that architects should be more receptive to the tastes and values of common people and less inclined to erect abstract monuments. This sounds so much like Iconic-Architecture which I am strongly against, and how do I go about talking about his ideas?

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2 Comments

  1. 50 foot Robotic Michael Jackson in Las Vegas : mirage.studio.7
    on July 17th, 2007
    1

    [...] Las Vegas is well known for its buildings that perform, for example the volcano that erupt, the Eiffel Tower, the pyramid and sphinx of Egypt and many more, and one more to come and it is non other than a replica of a robotic Michael Jackson. I’ve got no idea what shape it would be and could be, the main question would be what is the entire purpose of having this robotic statue looking over Las Vegas? Rumors has it that MJ plans to hold a concert in Las Vegas, following the foot steps of famous artist like Celine Dion and Elton John. [...]

  2. Yuval
    on February 18th, 2008
    2

    Man, I need to read that thing!!
    Though I like contravercial subjects like that.

    do you have a good brief of that book I have 2 days to read it through :)

    I’ll give you something interesting in return, it seems there was a debate about the books design which might be interesting, you can divert the disscution to that when you get bored, they won’t see it coming, check it out:
    http://www.designobserver.com/archives/000146.html

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