Las Vegas Studio
dal 21/11/2008 al 7/3/2009
Segnalato da
21/11/2008
Las Vegas Studio
Museum im Bellpark Kriens, Kriens
Images from the Archives of Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown. The exhibition presents the images and films that were taken during the legendary 1968 Las Vegas research, making a selection available to the public for the first time. Photography and film were important instruments for urban analysis. The visual material provides a spectacular demonstration of how Venturi, Scott Brown and Steven Izenour conceptualized the city in the medium of the image.
In 1968, American architects Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown and Steven Izenour
together with students from Yale University made Las Vegas the object of their
research. The group spent three weeks in libraries, four days in Los Angeles and ten
days in Las Vegas. In 1972, their findings were presented and interpreted in terms
of a general architectural theory in the seminal publication Learning from Las
Vegas. This study dealt above all with the symbolic dimension of architecture and
the question of communication in the contemporary city. With their work, they
decisively influenced the way the modern, commercial city was seen and also the
direction of urbanistic research projects in both methodology and questions of
representation.
Photography and film were important instruments for urban analysis in this
"research studio" They were equally means of argumentation and representation.
The original material has since been stored in the archives of Venturi, Scott Brown
& Associates in Philadelphia. The firm has now opened its archives. The exhibition
"Las Vegas Studio" presents the images and films that were taken during the
legendary 1968 Las Vegas research, making a selection available to the public for
the first time. The visual material provides a spectacular demonstration of how
Venturi, Scott Brown and Izenour conceptualized the city in the medium of the image.
Hilar Stadler, Director, Museum im Bellpark Kriens
Martino Stierli, Art Historian, Zurich
Catalogue
Las Vegas Studio. Images from the Archives of Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown.
Ed. by Hilar Stadler and Martino Stierli, with texts by Stanislaus von Moos and
Martino Stierli and an interview by Hans Ulrich Obrist with Peter Fischli and Rem
Koolhaas, Scheidegger & Spiess Verlag, Zurich, 2008.
Image: Fremont Street, Las Vegas, 1968 © Venturi Scott Brown and Associates
Philadelphia
Opening: Saturday November 22, 2008 5pm
Museum im Bellpark Kriens
Luzernerstrasse 21 . CH-6011 Kriens Switzerland
Wed-Sat 2-5pm, Sun 11am-5pm