Monthly Archives: February 2013

Learning from structuralism

Although Learning from Las Vegas can seem banal today, it was a true architectural revolution when it was done in the early 1970s. An in-depth architectural research of the Strip? Shocking! Why would Yale University professors and students waste their … Continue reading

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The “post-modern” tendencies (Venturi and Leach)

It is always interesting to be reminded of the influence that had the economic determinism on the socio-cultural values of mass societies. Indeed, in all three texts, we see how the “post-modern” man has pushed away most of the vernacular … Continue reading

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Comments on 0104 readings

The main idea of the Learning from Las Vegas is not that much a research on sign but more a manifesto for the ending of the authoritarian way of the study of architecture advocated, not only by modernist but also … Continue reading

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