From Las Vegas to Rome: Photographs by Iwan – Mextrópoli
The Mextrópoli Festival is one of Latin America’s most important architecture and city festivals. The 2025 edition will focus on “collective housing” in the face of a global housing crisis. The UIA World Congress of Architects 2026 Barcelona will be presented in Mexico City on 20 September 2025, at the… Continue reading
From Las Vegas to Rome: Photographs by Iwan – Princeton University School of Architecture
In 2022, 50 years after Denise Scott Brown, Robert Venturi, and Steven Izenour declared in their influential book Learning from Las Vegas that the desert town was to the Strip what Rome is to the Piazza, the American Academy of Rome debuted the exhibition From Las Vegas to Rome, exploring… Continue reading
Rome – Las Vegas Bread and Circuses – Iwan Baan
The cities of Rome and Las Vegas commonly sit at opposite ends of what architecture represents: whereas the former capital of the Roman Empire is perceived as ancient, proper and eternal, Sin City is described as flashy, vulgar and fake. Yet, both find themselves historically and contemporarily at the intersection… Continue reading
From Las Vegas to Rome – Architectural Association London
When they published Learning from Las Vegas in 1972, Denise Scott Brown and Robert Venturi revolutionised architecture by claiming that the lessons the American desert town had to offer equalled those of the Eternal City. “Las Vegas is to the Strip what Rome is to the Piazza,” they declared. Organised… Continue reading