Folio. Numerous illustrations from photographs and architectural plans. Original blue-grey cloth gilt with color photograph illustration mounted to upper cover and framed in gilt, designed by Muriel Cooper; ORIGINAL PRINTED GLASSINE DUST JACKET (loss to lower left corner and a horizontal sellotape repair on front panel, some chipping). Provenance: John Kurtich (d. 2004), architect and professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (book-stamp on bottom edge of text-block).

FIRST EDITION. An iconic work in the field of postmodern architecture, the genesis of Learning from Las Vegas was a third year graduate studio class taught by the authors at Yale University in 1968. Accompanied by thirteen students, the authors traveled to Las Vegas to study the city’s urban form. An unflinching critique of Modernist architecture, the book ignited a firestorm of controversy in the architectural world, with the book’s defenders referred to as “The Greys” and its detractors as “The Whites.” The book became associated more and more with postmodern architectural thought as the younger generation of architects held it up as a highly influential work.