Robert Venturi – Learning from Las Vegas

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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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Citations And Footnotes:


  • ^ Architecture - Architecture (Latin architectura, from the Greek ἀρχιτέκτων – arkhitekton, from ἀρχι- "chief" and τέκτων "builder, carpenter, mason") is both the process and product of planning, designing and construction. Architectural works, in the material form of buildings, are often perceived as cultural symbols and as works of art. Historical civilizations are often identified with their surviving architectural achievements.
  • ^ Architect - An architect is a person trained in the planning, design and oversight of the construction of buildings. To practice architecture means to offer or render services in connection with the design and construction of a building, or group of buildings and the space within the site surrounding the buildings, that have as their principal purpose human occupancy or use.
  • ^ Pritzker Architecture Prize - The Pritzker Architecture Prize is awarded annually by the Hyatt Foundation to honour "a living architect whose built work demonstrates a combination of those qualities of talent, vision and commitment, which has produced consistent and significant contributions to humanity and the built environment through the art of architecture".
  • ^ - Le Corbusier, Towards a New Architecture, Dover Publications(1985). ISBN 0-486-25023-7
  • ^ - Rondanini, Nunzia Architecture and Social Change Heresies II, Vol. 3, No.

Comments:


  1. Yuval
    1

    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

  2. Jim
    2

    Actually you misunderstand the entire premise of the book. Its against iconic architecture. Thats what the decorated sheds are about. I bet if you got into it you’d like. Also, please give proper credit to Denise Scott Brown.

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