Venturi, who along with his partner, Denise Scott Brown, has made the vulgar acceptable and found virtue in the commercial, the kitsch, and the ordinary, is rep

"Robert Venturi's 'Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture' and 'Learning from Las Vegas' (the latter coauthored with Denise Scott Brown and Steven Izenour

Foreword by Arthur Drexler. Introduction by Vincent Scully.

The observer-designer-theorists who analyzed the Las Vegas strip as an archetype in "Learning from Las Vegas" now turn their iconoclastic vision onto their own