Lavin, Sylvia, author.

Kissing architecture / Sylvia Lavin.

Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2011]
©2011

122 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 20 cm.

Point

Kissing Architecture explores the mutual attraction between architecture and other forms of contemporary art. In this fresh, insightful, and beautifully illustrated book, renowned architectural critic and scholar Sylvia Lavin develops the concept of "kissing" to describe the growing intimacy between architecture and new types of art--particularly multimedia installations that take place in and on the surfaces of buildings--and to capture the sensual charge that is being designed and built into architectural surfaces and interior spaces today. Initiating readers into the guilty pleasures of architecture that abandons the narrow focus on function, Lavin looks at recent work by Pipilotti Rist, Doug Aitken, the firm Diller Scofidio + Renfro, and others who choose instead to embrace the viewer in powerful affects and visual and sensory atmospheres. -- Book Description.

9780691149233 (cloth ; acid-free paper)
0691149232 (cloth ; acid-free paper)

Art and architecture History 21st century.
Art et architecture Histoire 21e siècle.
Art and architecture.
Architecture, Modern 21st century.
Art, Modern 21st century.
Konst och arkitektur.
Art, Modern 21st century Themes, motives.
Art, Modern 21st century Philosophy.
Centre canadien d'architecture Collection

History.

Point (Princeton, N.J.)

Location: Library main 273094
Call No.: BIB 206557
Status: Available