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The physical book itself, designed by MIT's iconic designer Muriel Cooper, was hailed as a masterpiece of modernist design, but the book's design struck the authors as too monumental for a text that praised the ugly and ordinary over the heroic and monumental. The MIT Press published a revised version in 1977—a modest paperback that the authors felt was more in keeping with the argument of the book—and the original Cooper-designed book fell out of print and became a highly sought-after collectors' item; it now sells for thousands of dollars in the rare book market, while the author-redesigned paperback has remained continuously in print at a price affordable to students. Now, decades after the original hardcover edition sold out, the MIT Press is publishing a facsimile edition of the original large-format Cooper-designed edition of Learning from Las Vegas, complete with translucent glassine wrap. This edition also features a spirited preface by Denise Scott Brown, looking back on the creation of the book and explaining her and Robert Venturi's reservations about the original design.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLearning from Las Vegas begins with the Las Vegas Strip and proceeds to \"Ugly and Ordinary Architecture, or the Decorated Shed,\" on symbolism in architecture and the iconography of urban sprawl. 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(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. 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Fascinated by the ephemeral and the everyday, Scott Brown took photographs for fun, research and teaching, and later as a component of design and planning projects. Through the lens of her Alpa camera she sought to penetrate the irreducible complexities of life around her – and to make a case for the architect and planner’s role in intervening within it.\u003cbr\u003e[MORE]\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Encounters” presents, for the first time, an essential collection of Scott Brown’s photography from the 1950s to the 1970s: the formative decades during which Scott Brown departed her childhood home of Johannesburg to study in London, traveled through Europe, moved to the United States, developed the profound interest in postwar suburbia from which “Learning from Las Vegas” would emerge and joined her husband Robert Venturi in practice.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMoving thematically rather than sequentially through Scott Brown’s photographic oeuvre, “Encounters” opens up new ways of reading this body of work, presenting it less as a continuous historical record than as the product of a careful and studied practice of observation. Chosen in collaboration between Denise Scott Brown and Izzy Kornblatt and accompanied by an essay on Scott Brown’s conception of the ordinary, this collection of photographs offers a window into modes of thinking that continue to structure how designers perceive the world around them.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lars Müller Publishers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46607185281244,"sku":"S05538","price":75.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0699\/9746\/1724\/files\/NEWBOOKS1502.jpg?v=1748973721"},{"product_id":"robert-venturi-and-denise-scott-brown-learning-from-las-vegas","title":"Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown: Learning from Las Vegas (Supercrit)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Supercrit series revisits some of the most influential architectural projects of the recent past and examines their impact on the way we think and design today. 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