Eyes That Saw

An intellectual panorama about the significance and lasting effect of Learning from Las Vegas in architecture and urban design as well as in visual arts

At the peak of the 1968/69 students' riots at American Universities, Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown, together with Steven Izenour, pursued their Design and Research Studio on the topic of Las Vegas at Yale School of Architecture. The results of this were condensed into the book Learning from Las Vegas that became a classic almost instantly upon its first publication in 1972. The treatise excited the 1970s architecture world and has remained influential to architects, teachers and theoreticians to the present day.

Some forty years later, Eyes that Saw: Architecture after Las Vegas offers a richly illustrated collection of essays by renowned scholars of art and architectural history, eminent architects, and artists, investigating Learning from Las Vegas and its heritage from various perspectives. All build on the knowledge of the radical influence it had on architecture and urban design, visual art, and even on history more generally. Published alongside are documents from the Venturi, Scott Brown & Associates Archive at University of Pennsylvania, as well as an illustrated chronology of the resonance in international media following the publication of Learning from Las Vegas in 1972.

• Ein intellektuelles Panorama zu Bedeutung und Wirkung des Klassikers der modernen Architekturtheorie Learning from Las Vegas
• Versammelt knapp zwanzig bisher unveröffentlichte Originalbeiträge bedeutender Architekten, Architekturtheoretiker und Künstler

• Reich illustriert mit Fotografien von Architekturikonen in Las Vegas

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Stanislaus von Moos war 19832005 Professor für moderne Kunst an der Universität Zürich und 20102014Gastprofessor an der Yale School of Architecture. Er ist der Autor zahlreicher Monografien, u.a. über Le Corbusier und Robert Venturi.

Martino Stierli ist Philip Johnson Curator of Architecture and Design am Museum of Modern Art in New York und seit 2016 Privatdozent an der Universität Zürich. Er ist Autor u.a. von Las Vegas in the Rearview Mirror: The City in Theory, Photography, and Film (2010).