Don't worry....Vegas is still HOT!

Look like cookies!


In case you've been wondering; Vegas is still hot as hell. When you are suffering from a cold, it doesn't help that you move from outdoor of 102 degress to 69 degree temperature.

This week will post 4 days of vegas while coughing up mucus!

We also have some previous posts before the trip will go up this week too, as well. Its been pretty hectic for both of us. Stay Tuned!

Wow, this is the last day of my life that I am going to be 24, and I am spending it printing out the zoning codes for Las Vegas.

strip...or not?

heres how site documenting via google earth can be fun!

First Post: Vegas

Vegas has been done, is overdone and never done. It is the contemporary spectacle culture at its peak- phantasmagoria of entertainment + unpresedented urban sprawl. This blog is intended to catalog the research and thesis documentation of two students and a 21st century city :
Nancy Tang + Michael Manalo + Las Vegas

The goal is to conduct a post-critical research and analysis of contemporary Vegas and then derive two architectural hypothesies that will address its socio-economic condition or infrastructure.

Listed below are resources and references for this thesis research:

[Learning from Las Vegas- Robert Venturi/Denise Scott Brown/Steven Izenour]
1. VERB Conditioning: Architecture Boogazine
2. In The Desert of Desire: Las Vegas and the Culture of Spectacle
-William L. Fox
3. The Last Honest Place in America
-Marc Cooper
4. Neon Metropolis
-Hal Rothman
5. Dream Worlds: Architecture & Entertainment
-Oliver Herwig/ Florian Hoizherr
6. Terra Incognita: Vacant Land and Urban Strategies
-Ann O'M. Bowman and Michael Pagano
7. Casinos
-Ralph Tegmeier

References:
* The Metapolis Dictionary of Advanced Architecture (Manuel Gausa)
* Atlas of Novel Tectonics (Reiser + Umemoto)
* How Maps Work (Alan M MacEachren)
* A Guide to Esctacity (Nigel Coates)
* Mutations (Rem Koolhaas)
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Bright Lights await! Find joy in work!