The research project focuses on “Learning from Las Vegas” by Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown and Steven Izenour and it attempts to understand and designate the significance of this specific book for architectural theory, since its first edition until nowadays. In the first part, the book is extensively described as a cultural product and as a designed product. The structure and notions of the writers' research in Las Vegas is analyzed along with the rational and graphical processing of its conclusions. Then, a more holistic view of the general cultural production context between the in situ Las Vegas research and the book's first edition is given, through a listing of contemporary-to-the-book examples. These examples have been chosen out of many possible ones, in order to emphasize the diversity and intensity of the criticisms to the modernism of the era – always in context with the book being studied. Furthermore, a mention to the criticisms that the book itself has received offers an idea of the main yet different approaches to postmodernism and postmodern architecture.

On the research project appendix the translation of the book from english to greek, based on the revised edition of 1977, is included. The translation has been an initial triggering event and a later basic approaching tool for the research it accompanies.