Sole-authored and Edited Books

I AM A MONUMENT: On Learning from Las Vegas

(Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2008)

Reviews of I AM A MONUMENT:

  • - Eduardo Vivanco, “Must They Mean What they Say? I AM A MONUMENT,” Design Issues, vol. 26, no. 3 (Summer 2010): 83-91.
  • - Amanda Reeser Lawrence, “I AM A MONUMENT: On Learning from Las Vegas” and “Relearning from Las Vegas,” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, vol. 69, no. 2 June 2010): 288-290.
  • - D.J. Huppatz, “Relearning from Las Vegas,” and “I AM A MONUMENT: On Learning from Las Vegas,” Design and Culture, vol. 2, no. 1 (March 2010): 109-113.
  • - Deborah Fausch, “Relearning from Las Vegas” and “I AM A MONUMENT: On Learning from Las Vegas,” Journal of Architectural Education, vol. 63, no. 1 (October 2009): 158-160.
  • - David Morton, “’On Learning from Las Vegas’, by Aron Vinegar,” Urban Design Review (Spring/Summer 2009): 4-6.
  • - John Hill, “Of Ducks & Sheds,” Architect Magazine (June 2009)
  • - Chris Speed, “I AM A MONUMENT: On Learning from Las Vegas,” Leonardo On-Line: Leonardo Reviews (April 2009)
  • - Karl Steinick, “Las Vegas jackpott for arkitekturen,” Svenska Dagbladet, Jan 8, 2009
  • - François Chaslin, “un livre d'Aron Vinegar à propos du Learning from Las Vegas de Venturi et Scott Brown,” Urbanisme, no. 365 (Mars/Avril 2009): 90-91.
  • - _____”un livre d'Aron Vinegar à propos du Learning from Las Vegas de Venturi et Scott Brown,” Tuesday, January 28, 2008, 10:00-11:00 am “Métropolitains,” Radio France
  • - ____ “Las Vegas de nuevo, génesis de un libro,” Arquitectura Viva, no. 123 (2008): 81.

Relearning from Las Vegas

edited by Aron Vinegar and Michael Golec
(Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2009)

Reviews of Relearning from Las Vegas:

  • - Mikko Näveri, “Kirja Kirjasta (Book About A Book): Relearning from Las Vegas,” Ark: Finsk Arkitekturtidskrift/The Finnish Architectural Review, vol. 107, no. 6 (2010): 86-87.
  • - Larry Shiner, “Relearning from Las Vegas,” Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, vol. 67, no. 4 (Fall 2009): 431-433. Also see joint reviews of sole authored and edited book.

Chapters in Books

"La fantaisie du canard et du hangar décoré,” in
Dreamlands: Des parcs d’attractions aux cités du futur

(Paris: Éditions du Centre Pompidou, 2010), pp. 194-198. Catalogue essay for the Dreamlands exhibition at the Centre Pompidou, May 5-Aug 9, 2010.

“Ed Ruscha, Heidegger and Deadpan Photography,” in
Photography After Conceptual Art,

eds. Margaret Iversen and Diarmuid Costello (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell Press, 2010) pp. 28-49.

“Viollet-le-Duc, Panoramic Photography, and the Restoration of the Château de Pierrefonds" in
Essays on Viollet-le-Duc

edited by Werner Oechslin
(Zürich: Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule/Geschichte und Theorie der Architektur Verlag, 2010) pp. 90-109.

"Panoramic Photography, and the Restoration of the Château de Pierrefonds" in
Colloque sur l'Oeuvre de Viollet-le-Duc

(Paris: Editions du Patrimoine, 2008), pp.70-81.

“Introduction” and
“The Melodrama of Expression and Inexpression in the Duck and Decorated Shed” in
Relearning from Las Vegas

edited by Aron Vinegar and Michael Golec
(Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2008), pp. 163-193.

“At the Limit” in
Horizons and Intersections III

catalogue essay, for an exhibition at the Bau-Xi Gallery
Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 2007, pp. 1-8.

Peer and Editor Reviewed Journal Articles

“Chatography,” in Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians

(forthcoming September 2012).

“Ed Ruscha, Heidegger and Deadpan Photography,” in Art History

vol. 32, no. 5 (December, 2009) pp. 852-873.
special issue on Photography After Conceptual Art, eds. Margaret Iversen and Diarmuid Costello.

“Viollet-le-Duc and Restoration in the Future Anterior,” in Future Anterior

vol.3, no. 2 (Fall 2006), pp. 57-67.

“Introduction,” and “Skepticism and the Ordinary—From Burnt Norton to Las Vegas,” in Visible Language

37.3 (Fall 2003): 244-245 and 288-311.

“Supporting Acts of Restoration, Reconstruction, and Reparation,” for CriT, [“To (re) Build”]

the National Student Architectural Journal 56 (December, 2003), pp. 12-13.

“Contingency and Flexibility in the Pontiac Building,” in Thresholds

16 (Spring, 1998), pp. 38-43.

“Memory as Construction in Viollet-le-Duc’s Architectural Imagination,” in Paroles Gelées

16, 2 (1998), pp. 43-55.

Papers in Proceedings and Dictionary Entries

Mary Woods, “Beyond the Architect’s Eye: Photographs and the American Built Environment,” in
History of Photography, vol. 35, no. 4 (November 2011): 447-449.

“Viollet-le-Duc, Eugène,” in
Europe, 1789-1914: Encyclopedia of the Age of Industry and Empire, vol. 5

edited by John Merriman and Jay Winter
(New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2006), pp. 2422-2424.

“Garnier, Tony 1869-1948,” in
Encyclopedia of Twentieth Century Architecture, vol. 2

edited by Stephen Sennott
(New York: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2004), pp. 483-485.

“Imaginative Variation and Photographic Frames of Reference at Pierrefonds,” in
Consciousness Reframed 3: Conference Proceedings

edited by Roy Ascott and Michael Punt
(Newport, Wales: University of Wales College, 2000).

“Viollet-le-Duc and the Anatomical Body of Architectural Knowledge,” in
Proceedings of The Institute for Liberal Studies: Science and Culture

Institute for Liberal Studies
Kentucky State University, Frankfort, Kentucky, vol. 9 (Fall, 1998): 12-20.