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Duck Duck Shed Lectures and Panels
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Date
October 6, 2023
Name
Still Learning from Las Vegas: Christopher Hawthorne
Description
In 1972, MIT Press published a book that would permanently change America’s understanding of how cities are designed and which ones are worth careful study: Learning From Las Vegas, by Denise Scott Brown, Robert Venturi, and Steven Izenour. Based on research conducted as part of a Yale School of Architecture seminar in the fall of 1968, the book upended a half-century of modernist orthodoxy, arguing that “learning from the existing landscape is a way of being revolutionary for an architect.” The author of a recent New Yorker essay exploring the book on its 50th birthday, Christopher Hawthorne, will join us to reflect on the ongoing lessons of the book and the Las Vegas it celebrated.
His talk will look back at Venturi and Scott Brown’s time in Las Vegas and forward to imagine the city’s place in emerging debates over architecture and urban design, particularly in labor, adaptive reuse, and climate change.
LOCATION Golden Nugget
TIME 1pm
Approved for AIA CE credit - 1.5 Learning Unit
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