Aron Vinegar

In 2009 I reviewed Aron Vinegar's "I AM A MONUMENT," a reconsideration of the highly influential text "Learning from Las Vegas." This collection of essays also focuses on that classic 1972 book by Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown and Steven Izenour, stemming from a 2003 issue of "Visual Language" which Vinegar also organized. (His own cottage industry?) The essays cover the book's page layout, its relationship to art, and even its relationship to Reyner Banham's book on Los Angeles. Varied but academic throughout.… (mehr)