The Revolution of Learning from…
Lecture of Valéry Didelon, architect, historian and architecture critic, Paris in the context of the lecture series “We built this City” at the Institute for Art and Architecture Summerterm 2009.
Learning from Las Vegas, the manifesto of Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown and Steven Izenour has been depicted when it has been published in the late 60's as the program of "counter-revolution". Some years latter, it was recognized as a seminal piece of architectural avant-gardism. In between, the book has definitively changed the way peoples look at cities. Today we're still experimenting its aftermaths, but are we still learning from ?
Valéry Didelon (1972) is architect, historian and architecture critic. He teaches at Ecole nationale supérieure d'architecture de Nantes, is editor of Criticat a newly founded review and regularly contributes to other architecture journals. He is currently completing a doctoral thesis in art history at the Sorbonne on "The reception of Learning from Las Vegas".