| Description |
xvii, 192 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Preface to the first edition -- Preface to the revised edition -- Part I. A significance for A & P parking lots, or learning from Las Vegas -- A significance for A & P parking lots, or learning from Las Vegas -- Commercial values and commercial methods -- Billboards are almost right -- Architecture as space -- Architecture as symbol -- Symbol in space before form in space : Las Vegas as a communication system -- The architecture of persuasion -- Vast space in the historical tradition and at the A & P -- From Rome to Las Vegas -- Maps of Las Vegas -- Main street and the Strip -- System and order on the Strip -- Change and permanence on the Strip -- The architecture of the Strip -- The interior oasis -- Las Vegas lighting -- Architectural monumentality and the big low space -- Las Vegas styles -- Las Vegas signs -- Inclusion and the difficult order -- Image of Las Vegas : inclusion and allusion in architecture -- Studio notes -- Part II. Ugly and ordinary architecture, or the decorated shed -- Some definitions using the comparative method -- The duck and the decorated shed -- Decoration on the shed -- Explicit and implicit associations -- Heroic and original, or ugly and ordinary -- Ornament : signs and symbols, denotation and connotation, heraldry and physiognomy, meaning and expression -- Is boring architecture interesting? -- Historical and other precedents : towards an old architecture -- Historical symbolism and modern architecture -- The cathedral as duck and shed -- Symbolic evolution in Las Vegas -- The Renaissance and the decorated shed -- Nineteenth-century eclecticism -- Modern ornament -- Ornament and interior space -- The Las Vegas strip -- Urban sprawl and the megastructure -- Theory of ugly and ordinary and related and contrary theories -- Origins and further definition of ugly and ordinary -- Ugly and ordinary as symbol and style -- Against ducks, or ugly and ordinary over heroic and original, or think little -- Theories of symbolism and association in architecture -- Firmness + commodity [does not] = delight : modern architecture and the industrial vernacular -- Industrial iconography -- Industrial styling and the cubist model -- Symbolism unadmitted -- From La Tourette to Neiman-Marcus -- Slavish formalism and articulated expressionism -- Articulation as ornament -- Space as God -- Meagstructures and design control -- Misplaced technological zeal -- Which technological revolution? -- Preindustrial imagery for a postindustrial era -- From La Tourette to Levitown -- Silent-white-majority architecture -- Social architecture and symbolism -- High-design architecture -- Summary -- Appendix. On design review boards and fine arts commissions. |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages [167]-189. |
| Subject |
Architecture as Topic -- Nevada -- Las Vegas.
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Symbolism in architecture.
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| Added Author |
Scott Brown, Denise, 1931-
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Izenour, Steven.
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| ISBN |
0262220202. paperback |
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026272006X |
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