Learning from Martigny. In Learning from Las Vegas 1977, Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown, and Steven Izenour, as a call to reinvigorate architectural design with symbolic content, advocated the study of the commercial strip and in particular, the role that signs play in conveying meaning and providing order to the landscape. In Learning from Martigny, Valentin Carron offers a photo-documentation of his surroundings the sources for some of his works intertwined with images of his sculptures or paintings. If Carrons sculptures mark a renewal of appropriation through the re-employment of vernacular forms that are not part of the