Learning from Las Vegas
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Learning from Las Vegas is an influential architectural theory book by Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown, and Steven Izenour that helped define postmodern architecture by championing the symbolism and vernacular of commercial landscapes like the Las Vegas Strip.
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Target entity: Learning from Las Vegas Context triple: [Postmodern architecture, hasKeyText, Learning from Las Vegas]
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The Pisa Lectures
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Target entity: Learning from Las Vegas Target entity description: Learning from Las Vegas is an influential architectural theory book by Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown, and Steven Izenour that helped define postmodern architecture by championing the symbolism and vernacular of commercial landscapes like the Las Vegas Strip.
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A.
Design, Form, and Chaos
"Design, Form, and Chaos" is a seminal book by graphic designer Paul Rand that explores his philosophy, methods, and influential work in modern visual communication.
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B.
The Pisa Lectures
The Pisa Lectures are a series of influential talks by Noam Chomsky that laid out the core ideas of his Government and Binding theory in generative grammar.
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C.
The niche: an abstractly inhabited hypervolume
"The niche: an abstractly inhabited hypervolume" is a seminal ecological paper by G. Evelyn Hutchinson that conceptualizes an organism’s niche as a multidimensional space defined by environmental conditions and resources.
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D.
The Sciences of the Artificial
The Sciences of the Artificial is a seminal 1969 book by Herbert A. Simon that explores the nature, design, and study of artificial systems such as organizations, computers, and complex artifacts.
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E.
The Minimalist Program
The Minimalist Program is a major theoretical framework in generative linguistics, developed by Noam Chomsky, that seeks to explain the properties of human language through the simplest and most economical principles and mechanisms.
- F. None of above. chosen
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| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
architectural theory book
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book ⓘ |
| academicDiscipline |
architecture
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cultural studies ⓘ urban studies ⓘ |
| advocated |
acceptance of commercial vernacular
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use of popular culture in architecture ⓘ |
| author |
Denise Scott Brown
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Robert Venturi ⓘ Steven Izenour ⓘ |
| centralConcept |
commercial strip as urban landscape
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decorated shed ⓘ duck ⓘ symbolic form in architecture ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
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| criticized |
International Style
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modernist architecture ⓘ |
| firstPublishedIn | Cambridge, Massachusetts ⓘ |
| genre | non-fiction ⓘ |
| hasCoAuthorTeam |
Venturi Scott Brown and Associates
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surface form:
Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates
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| hasEdition |
Learning from Las Vegas
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surface form:
Learning from Las Vegas: Revised Edition
Learning from Las Vegas self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Learning from Las Vegas: The Forgotten Symbolism of Architectural Form
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| impact |
helped define postmodern architectural discourse
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reframed attitudes toward commercial landscapes ⓘ |
| influenced |
Denise Scott Brown’s later work
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Robert Venturi’s later work ⓘ architectural criticism ⓘ postmodern architecture ⓘ urban design discourse ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| methodology |
analysis of signage
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empirical field study ⓘ photographic documentation ⓘ |
| notableFor |
critique of modernist purity
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embrace of roadside architecture ⓘ formulation of duck and decorated shed distinction ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1972 ⓘ |
| publisher | MIT Press ⓘ |
| setting | Las Vegas, Nevada ⓘ |
| subject |
Las Vegas Strip
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architectural theory ⓘ architecture ⓘ postmodern architecture ⓘ symbolism in architecture ⓘ urbanism ⓘ vernacular architecture ⓘ |
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this entity surface form:
Learning from Las Vegas: The Forgotten Symbolism of Architectural Form
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Learning from Las Vegas: The Forgotten Symbolism of Architectural Form
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Robert Venturi on Architecture as Signs and Systems
this entity surface form:
Learning from Las Vegas: The Forgotten Symbolism of Architectural Form
this entity surface form:
Learning from Las Vegas: Revised Edition