Дениза Скотт Браун — новинки

Осенью 1968 года тринадцать студентов и три преподавателя Йельского университета отправились в экспедицию в Лас-Вегас — мировую столицу вульгарности и плохого вкуса, кошмар архитектора того времени — времени строгих и лаконичных архитектурных форм, социальных амбиций и высокой миссии архитектурной профессии. Итоги скромного студенческого исследования были подведены в работе «Уроки Лас-Вегаса». Настоящая книга — это новое издание классического труда, ставшего главным манифестом постмодернизма. «Уроки Лас-Вегаса» реабилитировали уродливую и заурядную архитектуру и навсегда изменили представления о красоте и функциональности городского пространства.

Вышедшая в 1972 году книга трех архитекторов впервые ввела в широкий оборот слово "постмодернизм". Пока еще не для философов, но именно у Вентури и его товарищей те его вскоре заимствовали. Учиться у поп-культуры, отказаться от строгости форм, сбросить скучный модернизм с корабля, втащить в него обратно модерн и перемешать с "макдональдсом". Кажется, что Вентури с друзьями надо было бы издать по-русски лет двадцать назад. Сейчас их идеи и откровения могут скорее раздражать, чем вдохновлять. Но, с другой стороны, возможность прочитать главный манифест постмодернистской архитектуры заслуживает внимания.

"Learning from Las Vegas: The Forgotten Symbolism of Architectural Form" created a healthy controversy on its appearance in 1972, calling for architects to be more receptive to the tastes and values of "common" people and less immodest in their erections of "heroic," self-aggrandizing monuments. This revision includes the full texts of Part I of the original, on the Las Vegas strip, and Part II, "Ugly and Ordinary Architecture, or the Decorated Shed," a generalization from the findings of the first part on symbolism in architecture and the iconography of urban sprawl. (The final part of the first edition, on the architectural work of the firm Venturi and Rauch, is not included in the revision.) The new paperback edition has a smaller format, fewer pictures, and a considerably lower price than the original. There are an added preface by Scott Brown and a bibliography of writings by the members of Venturi and Rauch and about the firm's work.

Robert Venturi exploded onto the architectural scene in 1966 with a radical call to arms in "Complexity and Contradiction". Further accolades and outrage ensued in 1972 when Venturi and Denise Scott Brown (along with Steven Izenour) analyzed the Las Vegas strip as an archetype in "Learning from Las Vegas". Now, for the first time, these two observer-designer-theorists turn their iconoclastic vision onto their own remarkable partnership and the rule-breaking architecture it has informed.

The views of Venturi and Scott Brown have influenced architects worldwide for nearly half a century. Pluralism and multiculturalism; symbolism and iconography; popular culture and the everyday landscape; generic building and electronic communication are among the many ideas they have championed. Here, they present both a fascinating retrospective of their life work and a definitive statement of its theoretical underpinnings.

Accessible, informative, and beautifully illustrated, "Architecture as Signs and Systems" is a must for students of architecture and urban planning, as well as anyone intrigued by these seminal cultural figures. Venturi and Scott Brown have devoted their professional lives to broadening our view of the built world and enlarging the purview of practitioners within it. By looking backward over their own life work, they discover signs and systems that point forward, toward a humane Mannerist architecture for a complex, multicultural society.

Learning from Las Vegas created a healthy controversy on its appearance in 1972, calling for architects to be more receptive to the tastes and values of "common" people and less immodest in their erections of "heroic," self-aggrandizing monuments.

This revision includes the full texts of Part I of the original, on the Las Vegas strip, and Part II, "Ugly and Ordinary Architecture, or the Decorated Shed," a generalization from the findings of the first part on symbolism in architecture and the iconography of urban sprawl. (The final part of the first edition, on the architectural work of the firm Venturi and Rauch, is not included in the revision.) The new paperback edition has a smaller format, fewer pictures, and a considerably lower price than the original. There are an added preface by Scott Brown and a bibliography of writings by the members of Venturi and Rauch and about the firm's work.