Вентури Уроки Лас-Вегаса. Забытый символизм архитектурной формы

In the autumn of 1968, thirteen students and three professors from Yale University embarked on an expedition to Las Vegas - the world capital of vulgarity and bad taste, a nightmare for architects of that time - a time of strict and concise architectural forms, social ambitions, and the high mission of the architectural profession. The results of a modest student study were summarized in the work "Lessons of Las Vegas." This book is a new edition of a classic work that became the main manifesto of postmodernism. "Lessons of Las Vegas" rehabilitated ugly and mediocre architecture and forever changed the perceptions of beauty and functionality in urban space.