1960

Las Vegas Strip

1968

Architecture

December 31st, 1968

In 1968, Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown together with Steven Izenour, led a team of Yale students to document and analyze the Las Vegas Strip. In 1972, Venturi, Scott Brown and Izenour published the folio, A Significance for A&P Parking Lots, or Learning from Las Vegas later revised in 1977 as Learning from Las Vegas: the Forgotten Symbolism of Architectural Form using the student work as a foil for new theory. This second manifesto was an even more stinging rebuke to orthodox modernism and elite architectural tastes. The book coined the terms “Duck” and “Decorated Shed”--descriptions of the two predominant ways of embodying iconography in buildings.
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