Speed & The Messiness Of Life, With Nostalgia: Robert Venturi’s and Denise Scott Brown’s 1968 Trip To Las Vegas

Nicolai Ouroussof has written an intelligently thoughtful article entitled “The Lessons of Las Vegas Still Hold Surprises” in the Design Review section of The New York Times (online) on the exhibition entitled “What We Learned: The Yale Las Vegas Studio and the Work of Venturi, Scott Brown & Associates” at the Yale School of Architecture Gallery through Feb. 5, which looks at the extensive research the architects Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown did in Las Vegas beginning in 1968.  Venturi’s and Scott Brown’s views are fascinating in themselves, and the exhibition offers yet another dimension, if not time-warp, and, honestly, shivers, just thinking how much things have changed since the architects’ 1968 observations.

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Eero Saarinen: Troubled Waters: The Struggles Of A Propagandist For Modernism?

Nicolai Ouroussof has written a thoughtful article entitled “Making the Face of Modernism Familiar” in the Art & Design section of The New York Times (online) which looks at the exhibition “Eero Saarinen: Shaping the Future” now at the Museum of the City of New York, covering the architectural and other design contributions of the world-renowned modernist architect Eero Saarinen, son of Eliel Saarinen, and famous for, among other work, New York’s TWA Terminal and the Dulles International Airport Terminal.  This deeper look at the work of such a major contributor to American Modernist Architecture and design and its political, social and economic contexts is well worth your time.

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