27 APRIL 2015

Synopsis No 3 : SYMBOLISM IN ARCHITECTURE

Name:
1. Aung Ye Min
2. Firasat Mamun
3. Adriana Roslan
4. Soe Woei Hao
Text: Learning From Last Vegas : The Forgotten Symbolism Of Architectural Form
Author: Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown, and Steven Izenour
Year Written: 1908
Purpose of the theory (Please tick X; you may tick more than one box)

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Identifying an issue or problem within the contemporary context

Analyzing an architecture to identify a problem or solve a problem
Solving an issue in a broader context outside of architecture: presenting a theory/manifesto
Solving an issue within the context of architecture: presenting a design method
Solving an issue within the context of architecture: presenting a theory
Others: Appropriate usage of architecture movement in urban planning

Please complete the following:

What are the issues
addressed?

The significance of signage/symbolism in architecture as compared

to architecture without it

What are the design

methods/strategy/theories
proposed?

Las Vegas which had a rapid growth uses symbolism as a way to

progress its urban advancement and argues why symbolism is
important in todays context of development.

Relate the text to

architectural/urban forms
by illustrating one key
image.
Justify the selection.

The symbolism of architecture plays a significant role in Las Vegas

as the focal point or direction of the Las Vegas leans more towards
the communication between people and context rather than the
spaces that plays between the context. Las Vegas knows and
understands the people and its potential client which is why
expression of symbolism works. With this approach, people tend to
be dazzled by the lights and environment and not notice the spatial
planning of the city be it good or bad.