Learning From Miami: An Architectural Guide to Coping With Urban Sprawl
Quote: >>It was at Yale in 1968 that Venturi and a small group of
professors and students first unleashed their ideas on the academic
world. Theirs was a two-pronged aesthetic diatribe, both a scathing
criticism of modern architecture and a promotion of roadside American
architecture, specifically the commercial strip. It all began as a
university lecture called "A Significance For A&P Parking Lots," in
which Venturi calls the huge parking lot fronting any less
significant building "...the greatest evolution of vast space since
Versailles." Later, the lecture was expanded into a formal written
manifesto, Venturi's infamous masterwork Learning From Las Vegas
(1972). Venturi still designs architecture today: He recently
proposed the addition of the largest clock face in the world to the
top of the Staten Island Ferry Terminal.<<
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