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	{{Template}}'''Vernacular [[architecture]]''' is a term used to categorize methods of [[construction]] which use locally available resources to address local needs. Vernacular architecture tends to [[evolve]] over time to reflect the [[Natural environment|environmental]], [[cultural]] and [[historical]] context in which it exists. It has often been dismissed as crude and unrefined, but also has proponents who highlight its importance in current [[design]].		{{Template}}'''Vernacular [[architecture]]''' is a term used to categorize methods of [[construction]] which use locally available resources to address local needs. Vernacular architecture tends to [[evolve]] over time to reflect the [[Natural environment|environmental]], [[cultural]] and [[historical]] context in which it exists. It has often been dismissed as crude and unrefined, but also has proponents who highlight its importance in current [[design]].
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-	''[[Learning from Las Vegas]]'' (1972/1977) - Robert Venturi, Steven Izenour, Denise Scott Brown
-	Learning from Las Vegas (1972/1977) - Robert Venturi, Steven Izenour, Denise Scott Brown [Amazon.com] [FR] [DE] [UK]	+	== See also ==
-		+	*''[[Learning from Las Vegas]]'' (1972/1977) - [[Robert Venturi]], Steven Izenour, Denise Scott Brown
-	Book Description	+
-	Learning from Las Vegas created a healthy controversy on its appearance in 1972, calling for architects to be more receptive to the tastes and values of "common" people and less immodest in their erections of "heroic," self-aggrandizing monuments.	+
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-	This revision includes the full texts of Part I of the original, on the Las Vegas strip, and Part II, "Ugly and Ordinary Architecture, or the Decorated Shed," a generalization from the findings of the first part on symbolism in architecture and the iconography of urban sprawl. (The final part of the first edition, on the architectural work of the firm Venturi and Rauch, is not included in the revision.) The new paperback edition has a smaller format, fewer pictures, and a considerably lower price than the original. There are an added preface by Scott Brown and a bibliography of writings by the members of Venturi and Rauch and about the firm's work. --from the publisher	+
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-	Learning from Las Vegas (with D. Scott Brown and S. Izenour), Cambridge MA, 1972, revised 1977.	+
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Vernacular architecture is a term used to categorize methods of construction which use locally available resources to address local needs. Vernacular architecture tends to evolve over time to reflect the environmental, cultural and historical context in which it exists. It has often been dismissed as crude and unrefined, but also has proponents who highlight its importance in current design.

See also

• Learning from Las Vegas (1972/1977) - Robert Venturi, Steven Izenour, Denise Scott Brown