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, £14.99In 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.
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