Learning From Las Vegas

Cambridge: MIT Press, 1972. First edition. Hardcover. 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. Near fine in very good dust wrapper. Folio, 189 pages.36 x 27.5 cm. Numerous illustrations from photographs and architectural plans. 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.” Thirteen students signed up for the course which became the title of this book, but compiled, researched and photographed by the students themselves.