Learning from Las Vegas

Muriel Cooper

Muriel Cooper for Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown, and Steven Izenour: A Significance for A&P Parking Lots, or Learning from Las Vegas, MIT Press, 1972.

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    Muriel Cooper taught at the Museum School of Fine Arts, Simmons College, the Massachusetts College of Art, Boston University and the University of Maryland, as well as lecturing in institutions...

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    Muriel Cooper for Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown, and Steven Izenour: A Significance for A&P Parking Lots, or Learning from Las Vegas, MIT Press, 1972.

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    Muriel Cooper taught at the Museum School of Fine Arts, Simmons College, the Massachusetts College of Art, Boston University and the University of Maryland, as well as lecturing in institutions across America. In 1952, Cooper began working at MIT Press before founding the Office of Publications, which is now called Design Services. Cooper left MIT in 1958 to pursue a Fulbright scholarship in Milan. On her return in 1967, was became the first Design Director of MIT Press, where she designed hundreds of books such as Hans Wingler’s BAUHAUS (1969) and Robert Venturi’s Learning from Las Vegas (1972). In 1974 Cooper began teaching a course at MIT called ‘Messages and Means’ and was the first graphic designer to join the Department of Architecture in 1977. She later co-founded and directed MIT’s Visible Language Workshop at the Media Laboratory.

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    • MIT Media Lab

      1985 – 1994

    • MIT Visible Language Workshop

      1974 – 1985

    • Design Director at MIT Press

      1967 – 1974

    • Independent graphic studio

      1963 – 1967

    • Fulbright Scholarship in Milan

      1958 – 1963

    • Graphic designer at Massachusetts Institute of Technology Office of Publications (later MIT Press)

      1952 – 1958