Las Vegas
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
"A prime example of inspiration for postmodern architecture lies along the Las Vegas Strip, which was studied by Robert Venturi in his 1977 book Learning from Las Vegas celebrating the strip's ordinary and common architecture."--Sholem Stein "The film One from the Heart (1982) suggests that Francis Ford Coppola shares with Venturi and Baudrillard this fascination with [Las Vegas], the city that epitomizes the artificiality and allure of America." --From Text to Hypertext (2015) by Silvio Gaggi "If the commercial persuasions that flash on the strip are materialistic manipulation and vapid subcommunication, which cleverly appeal to our deeper drives but send them only superficial messages, it does not follow that we architects who learn from their techniques must reproduce the content or the superficiality of their messages."--Learning from Las Vegas (1972) by Venturi, Scott Brown and Izenour |
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Las Vegas is a desert city in Nevada, USA, known for its large hotels, extravagant entertainment and dining, and gambling. A prime example of inspiration for postmodern architecture lies along the Las Vegas Strip, which was studied by Robert Venturi in his 1977 book Learning from Las Vegas celebrating the strip's ordinary and common architecture.
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