Learning from Las Vegas (First Edition): "From the highway you see the bold silhouette of the concrete cylinder, and through the openings in the cylinder you see a structural diaphragm with an applique of black and white marble whose op-scaled...

Learning from Las Vegas (First Edition): "From the highway you see the bold silhouette of the concrete cylinder, and through the openings in the cylinder you see a structural diaphragm with an applique of black and white marble whose op-scaled stripes are like those of the tower at Siena. Inscribed in concrete on the back of the diaphragm sloping toward the viewer is the Twenty-Third Psalm, which is seen through a sheet of water.“

Tower, Princeton Memorial Park

(Venturi and Rauch, 1966)

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