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Magic Hour, The: The Convergence of Art and Las Vegas
Libby Lumpkin, David Batchelor, ...

Hatje Cantz Publishers, 2002

Is Las Vegas, the capital of the Western entertainment complex, also set to become the capital of art? A large number of artists live there or visit often, Venice was partially reconstructed there, and the Bellagio resort and casino house an art collection that includes El Grecos and Picassos promoted as if they were Frank Sinatra or the Beach Boys. At this historic moment, art is losing the visionary power to which it used to lay claim and is ...

William L. Price, Arts and Crafts to Modern Design

1 review
George E. Thomas

Princeton Architectural Press, 2000

A Great Architect, less great book
William Price is indeed an overlooked architect. While I'm hesistant to call him a genius, his work has a breadth seldom seen in the work of his contemporaries. He was one of the last of the Philadelphia architects to come from a background of manual training rather than an academic background, but clearly he was able to apply the lessons of contemporary practice learned from books, and ...

Learning from Las Vegas - Revised Edition: The Forgotten Symbolism of Architectural Form

6 reviews
Robert Venturi, Steven Izenour, ...

The MIT Press, 1977

Brilliant study of signage and architecture
Robert Venturi's study of the Las Vegas signage phenomena and it's impact on "architecture" is brilliant in it's scope. While written almost twenty five years ago, this book gains more and more pertinence as we as a society progress further into a "reality" of symbols, reproductions and representations. These words and thoughts are basically essential to the understanding of any city ...

Robert Venturi: Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture

5 reviews
Robert Venturi

"The Museum of Modern Art, New York", 1977

Gateway towards looking at architecture
I had to read this book for a class specifically regarding Robert Venturi and the postmodernism movement that he became a leading proponent of. However, this book is NOT a manifesto for a postmodern vacabulary- rather, this book looks at all architecture from the Parthenon to the common family home. Let me say that I have read many architectural theory books, but nothing that really inspired me ...

Learning from La Jolla: Robert Venturi Remakes a Museum in the Precinct of Irving Gill

3 reviews
Laurie Ann Farrell, Hugh Davies

Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, 1998

Another Venturi Classic
Buy this book even if you've never been to the La Jolla museum it describes. If you've been to the museum, it's worth buying to give you pause to reflect on what you've seen. This book offers both the history and theory behind Venturi's reshaping of a wonderful museum in an attractive location. Those of us who remember the museum in the old days have got to be impressed with what Venturi ...

Viva Las Vegas: After-Hours Architecture

2 reviews
Alan Hess

Chronicle Books, 1993

A MUST buy for the Las Vegas afficianado!
If you buy one book about the colorful history and architecture of the Golden Age of Las Vegas to the present, THIS IS IT!!! This wonderful book is expertly researched with many many old drawings, postcards, photos, and more!

Architecture of the Cape Cod Summer: The Work of Polhemus Savery DaSilva: New Classicists

2 reviews
Michael J. Crosbie

Images Publishing, 2008

The New Look of Summer on Cape Cod
This is a great book! Below is an edited version of my article that appeared in The Cape Cod Chronicle, July 24, 2008: "Inventive reinterpretations of historical elements" are major features of the houses of Polhemus Savery DaSilva Architects Builders (PSDAB), according to architect John R. DaSilva. In this magnificent book 25 major works by the firm are collected into one handsome volume. ...

Iconography and Electronics upon a Generic Architecture: A View from the Drafting Room

1 review
Robert Venturi

The MIT Press, 1998

Electronic shed
No longer a relationship with engineering as in the last two centuries but with electronics: this will be the challenge for architecture in the future. Not surprisingly it is the clever mind of Robert Venturi to state and, more importantly, to clarify this problem in his latest very insightful book, Iconography and Electronics upon a Generic Architecture. Venturi is not new to this kind of ...

Architecture as Signs and Systems: For a Mannerist Time (The William E. Massey Sr. Lectures in the History of ...

2 reviews
Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown

Belknap Press, 2004

Excellent!!!!
This book is a pleasure to read. The words taste almost of chocolate. It is the best book by Venturi, Scott Brown since Learning from Las Vegas. Whether you are an architect, interested in architecture, or just their ideas, you won't be disappointed.

L'enseignement de Las Vegas, ou, Le symbolisme oublié de la forme architecturale
Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown, ...

Mardaga, 1995

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