DuVall's New Modernism is a collection of essays written on the topics of: semiotics, typography, and aesthetics. DuVall explores these categories/fields as they function within the moment of a "New Modernism" or "hyper-modernism." It is also written, in part, as a response to the text Learning From Las Vegas (1972) by Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown and Steven Izenour which "calls for the glorification or ornamentation and vernacular form in architecture." 

-ML