The Strip: Las Vegas and the Architecture of the American Dream (MIT Press)
by Stefan Al
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The Las Vegas Strip has impersonated the Wild West, with saloon doors and wagon wheels; it has decked itself out in midcentury modern sleekness. It has illuminated itself with twenty-story-high neon signs, then junked them. After that came Disney-like theme parks featuring castles and pirates, followed by replicas of Venetian canals, New York skyscrapers, and the Eiffel Tower. (It might be noted that forty-two million people visited Las Vegas in 2015 -- ten million more than visited the real Paris.) More recently, the Strip decided to get classy, with casinos designed by famous architects and zillion-dollar collections of art. Las Vegas became the "implosion capital of the world" as developers, driven by competition, got rid of the old to make way for the new -- offering a non-metaphorical definition of "creative destruction." In The Strip, Stefan Al examines the many transformations of the Las Vegas Strip, arguing that they mirror transformations in America itself. The Strip is not, as popularly supposed, a display of architectural freaks but representative of architectural trends and a record of social, cultural, and economic change.
Al tells two parallel stories. He describes the feverish competition of Las Vegas developers to build the snazziest, most tourist-grabbing casinos and resorts -- with a cast of characters including the mobster Bugsy Siegel, the eccentric billionaire Howard Hughes, and the would-be political kingmaker Sheldon Adelson. And he views the Strip in a larger social context, showing that it has not only reflected trends but also magnified them and sometimes even initiated them. Generously illustrated with stunning color images throughout, The Strip traces the many metamorphoses of a city that offers a vivid projection of the American dream.
The Strip: Las Vegas and the Architecture of the American Dream (MIT Press) Stefan Al
We use cookies to offer an improved online experience and offer you content and services adapted to your interestsSkip navigation(It might be noted that forty-two million people visited Las Vegas in 2015 -- ten million more than visited the real Paris.) More recently, the Strip decided to get classy, with casinos designed by famous architects and zillion-dollar collections of artHe describes the feverish competition of Las Vegas developers to build the snazziest, most tourist-grabbing casinos and resorts--with a cast of characters including the mobster Bugsy Siegel, the eccentric billionaire Howard Hughes, and the would-be political kingmaker Sheldon AdelsonStefan Al Architecture and Urban Planning Home Publications Projects Art Pavillion Canton Tower (IBA) Opera Square Wine Barrel Gallery About Bio Talks Contact Home Publications Projects Art Pavillion Canton Tower (IBA) Opera Square Wine Barrel Gallery About Bio Talks Contact New York, NY United States (917) 727-4572 Today, the group provides crucial evidence for international courts and works with a wide range of activist groups, NGOs, Amnesty International, and the UNUS One Rogers Street Cambridge MA 02142-1209 UK Suite 2, 1 Duchess Street London, W1W 6AN, UK Contact Us The MIT Press About Bookstore Catalogs Events Internships Jobs Location Newsletter Staff Site Help Accessibility FAQ Privacy Policy Sitemap Terms of Use Services Current Authors Prospective Authors Book Sales Distribution and Services Exam and Desk Copies How to Order Journals Customer Service MIT Discounts Rights Permissions MIT Press Digital Arteca CogNet Digital Partners Idea Commons MIT Press eBooks Facebook Twitter Instagram New Titles RSS 2017 The MIT Press Maak jouw account aan, draag iedere dag bij aan jouw community, ontdek nieuwe video's[Full Description] You may also be interested in: $8.00 The Good Life and Its Discontents: The American Dream in the 1945-1995 by RLas Vegas was like an open-air laboratory experiment, with sign designers as uninhibited amateurs scientists weaving tapestries of neon, writes Al, an associate professor of urban design at the University of Pennsylvania101 Things I Learned in Architecture School Authored by: Matthew Frederick Concise lessons in design, drawing, the creative process, and presentation, from the basics of How to Draw a Line to the complexities of color theoryIntense competition for casino visitors drove designers to be especially attuned to shifts in consumer tastes, and to innovate accordingly with a creative destruction approach that cycled out resorts that had lost their appealThe citys history is loaded with creativity and unconventional thinking, Al writes, as designers who were far more concerned about appealing to the masses than adhering to traditional architectural tenets competed to one-up each otherWe are biological beings whose senses and neural systems have developed over millions of years; it stands to reason that research in the life sciences, particularly neuroscience, can offer compelling insights into the ways our buildings shape our interactions with the worldA story of both waste and innovation, of failure and triumph, this book shows how a city tuned to the convulsions of the commodity economy and the fickleness of desire grew from a little desert town into one of the worlds most visited citiesRockefeller, Jr., MIT hired the cole des Beaux-Artstrained architect William Welles Bosworth to build and design a new campusChristine Boyer The English architects Alison Smithson (19281993) and Peter Smithson (19232003) were ringleaders of the New Brutalism, active in CIAM and Team 10, and influential in English Pop Art 2ffeafca65 Al Stefan Jr. Age 55-59; Lives in Portland OR; Used to live in Tualatin OR, Sherwood OR, Loveland CO, Portland OR, Tustin CA, Higley AZ; View Free Details; Al Stefan.tefan al II-lea a fost domn al Moldovei ntre septembrie 1434 i august 1435, mpreun cu Ilia I (Ilie) din august 1435 pn n mai 1443, i singur din .
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