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Title: Unstable ground: scientific frictions in the analytical techniques of learning from Las Vegas
Author/Creator: Chapman, Michael; Ostwald, Michael J.
Institution: The University of Newcastle. Faculty of Engineering & Built Environment, School of Architecture and Built Environment
Description: This paper examines the use of scientific models of organising and displaying data in Venturi’s, Scott Brown’s and Izenour’s seminal work Learning from Las Vegas. The paper will demonstrate the affiliations between the project of measuring and documenting the architectural signification of Las Vegas and broader cultural, social and political shifts that reoriented intellectual culture in the period. Drawing from the emerging multi-disciplinary practices of critical theory, the paper will demonstrate the scientific aspirations of Learning from Las Vegas as well as the limitations inherent in its pseudo-scientific method. The paper focuses in particular on the relationship between “figure” and “ground” and its broader influence on systems of urban analysis.
Relation: Architectural Science Review Vol. 52, Issue 4, p. 245-253
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.3763/asre.2009.0031
Date: 2009
Publisher: Earthscan
Keyword(s): Denise Scott Brown; figure-ground; Las Vegas; Robert Venturi; urban analysis
Resource Type: journal article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/916718
Identifier: ISSN:0003-8628

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