In the fall of 1968, thirteen students and three teachers from Yale University went on an expedition to Las Vegas - the world capital of vulgarity and bad taste, an architect's nightmare of that time - a time of strict and laconic architectural forms, social ambitions and the high mission of the architectural profession. The results of the modest student research were summed up in the work “Lessons of Las Vegas.” This book is a new edition of the classic work, which became the main manifesto of postmodernism. “Lessons from Las Vegas” rehabilitated ugly and mediocre architecture and forever changed ideas about the beauty and functionality of urban space.