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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.

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A fascimile edition of the long-out-of-print large-format edition designed by design icon Muriel Cooper.

Upon its publication by the MIT Press in 1972, Learning from Las Vegas was immediately influential and controversial. The authors made an argument that was... Read Full Overview

Here is a plea for proper architectural humanity and humility as well as a plan for accommodating the desires and values of ordinary people who are too often being dragged along on architectural ego trips and uplift programs. It is also realistic examination of the American vernacular... Read Full Overview

Publi par un couple de jeunes architectes et enseignants qui y sonnent la r volte, Learning from Las Vegas cristallise les d bats dans le milieu architectural am ricain du d but des ann es soixante-dix. Aux constructions imaginaires d'un monde meilleur, l'ouvrage oppose l'observation... Read Full Overview

Amerikanische Originalausgabe erschienen bei The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1978