Thursday, 4:13pm
28 June 2012

Decorated sheds at the urban crossroads [extract]

Times Square Style: Graphics from the Great White Way

By Vicki Gold Levi and Steven Heller, Princeton Architectural Press, £14.99

In 1972, postmodern architects Denise Scott Brown and Robert Venturi proclaimed they were ‘learning from Las Vegas’. But decades before the Vegas Strip was a gleam in mobster Bugsy Seigel’s eye, Times Square in New York City was a crucible for American design.

Read ‘Decorated sheds at the urban crossroads’ in full in Eye 55.