Vegas and Venturi Reconsidered

It’s usually with a mix of awe and suspicion that visitors look at the architecture in Las Vegas. There are many who are commenting on the changes to the strip in the past 30 years, and how it’s become an entirely different place. However, there seem to be elements in all the arguments that do indeed reflect the notions set forth by Robert Venturi , with Izenour and Brown, in 1972. It is certainly a postmodern city , and it does become more so every year, but there are suggestions everywhere that point out how this has actually always been true.

Whether looking at the new facades that make reference to another place and another monument, or enjoying the Vegas that was in the downtown strip, it’s a place that looks like other places. And it does this to such an extent, that eventually, it can only look like itself. Guests from out of town, on their first night at their favorite hotel in Las Vegas , see difference and similarities in one glance. It looks like it used to, or what the photos have suggested in the imagination, and yet it is still a new place altogether. It creates itself at every moment, and it’s been that way for a long time.

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