Robert
Venturi
Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
adopted the motto "Less is more" to describe his aesthetic tactic of
arranging the necessary components of a building to create an impression of
extreme simplicity, functionality and minimalism. That approach related to the
modernism movement.
In contrast to that vision, Architect
Robert Venturi came up with his motto "Less is a bore", he criticized
the modernism characteristic and suggest a new approach of Complex architecture.
It seems to me, that Robert Venturi
felt that the idea of less is more is not suitable for people. People needed to
be captured by the imagination that the post modernism was offering. Calling
for more decoration, symbolism, color, pattern and clever references to
historic structures. With the new technology it seemed that anything is
possible, even the wildest and the complex.
His book "Learning from Las Vegas", is facing the
Symbols of the visual, commercial and shiny architecture that concentrated in
the city of gambling and entertainment in Las Vegas.
He presents the city as an expression
of culture that can't be ignored and that you can learn from it.
In my opinion, Les Vegas
represents the commercial message.
The
gambling hall is always dark and has no windows. The perception of time and
space of the guests distorted, there is no sense of time and space disappear.
Time has no limits because there is no difference between day and night.
The
modernism approach of "Less is more" describes minimalism, while the
new approach of "Less is a bore" describes freedom of imagination.
The example of Las Vegas, shows that the people has the possibility for
imagination but they are not aware of the fact that they are being controlled.
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