Quatremère De Quincy And The Invention Of A Modern Language Of Architecture

By Antoine Chrysostome Quatremère De Quincy, Sylvia Lavin

In this important revisionist work, Sylvia Lavin uncovers the origins of one of the fundamental concepts of modern architectural theory, the idea that architecture is a form of language. She demons...

Form Follows Libido: Architecture And Richard Neutra In A Psychoanalytic Culture

By Sylvia Lavin

Sylvia Lavin. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.

Form Follows Libido

By Sylvia Lavin

How modern architecture came to embrace the urges and fears of the affective unconscious."Eight million Americans a year cool their heels in psychiatric waiting rooms. Design can help lower this ne...

Architecture Itself and Other Postmodernization Effects

By Sylvia Lavin

Kissing Architecture (POINT: Essays On Architecture (3))

By Sylvia Lavin, Lavin, Sylvia

Architecture's growing intimacy with new types of art Kissing Architecture explores the mutual attraction between architecture and other forms of contemporary art. In this fresh, insightful, and b...

Log 17

By Cynthia Davidson Editor

Tschumi

By Bernard Tschumi

Crib Sheets: Notes On Contemporary Architectural Conversation

By Sylvia Lavin, Helene Furján, Penelope Dean

Matter -- Technique -- Practice -- Diagram -- Extreme Form -- Landscape -- Environment -- Surface -- Atmosphere -- Decoration -- Style -- Autonomy -- Flow -- Generic -- Urbanity -- Geometry -- Prog...

Mood River

By Sanford Kwinter, Tracey Emin, Jose Oubrerie, Chee Perlman, Jeff Kipnis, Philip Johnson

Flash in the pan

By Sylvia Lavin