Why begin a 2012 studio about Phnom Penh, Cambodia in 1972 Las Vegas, Nevada?

Learning from Las Vegas has not run its course as a radical research practice. Its techniques and representational strategies have been deeply absorbed into the North American discipline and its modalities commonplace within that discipline. However, conditions of architectural education are not global and the influence of the 20th century canon of architectural literature, including Learning from

Las Vegas has not necessarily reached those places it might now best serve, in this case the rapidly urbanizing cities of Southeast Asia, specifically Phnom Penh,

Cambodia.