learning from Las Vegas again?Las Vegas is the apotheosis of the desert town. Visiting Las Vegas in the mid-1960s was like visiting Rome in the late 1940s... "Learning from Las Vegas" Venturi, Brown, Izenour. The M.I.T. Press, 1972,1977. Thirty three years after the publication of Robert Venturi's seminal treatise on architecture, "Learning from Las Vegas", how does the city of Las Vegas appear today? Las Vegas 1905-2005: one hundred years after it's foundation, what form has Las Vegas, the most important city for tourism and mass entertainment in the world, seemingly impermeable to the various energy crises (petroleum, water, electricity) and terrorism which face the world today, taken?   SITE SPECIFIC_LAS VEGAS 05 is an artistic project, a work in progress, the second stop of a voyage which involve, after Rome, Shanghai.