Fine Books & Manuscripts

VENTURI, Robert; BROWN, Denise Scott; and IZENOUR, Steven. Learning From Las Vegas. Cambridge: The MIT Press, [1972]. Folio. With errata slip laid in. Numerous illustrations from photographs and architectural plans. Publisher’s blue-grey cloth stamped in gilt with color photograph illustration mounted to upper cover and framed in gilt, original printed glassine dust jacket (few small chips to spine ends, closed tear to front jacket edge); otherwise a fine copy. RARELY SEEN IN A FINE DUST JACKET. In 1968, Venturi, Brown, and Izenour taught a third-year studio graduate class at Yale that would significantly influence the study of architecture in the postmodern era. The class was called “Learning from Las Vegas, or Form Analysis as Design Research”. There was a total of thirteen students that signed up and in the end, their work would comprise the basis for “Learning From Las Vegas” authored by Venturi, Brown, and Izenour, but compiled, researched and photographed by the students themselves.