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Sylvia Lavin's “Form Follows Libido” argues that by the 1950s, some architects felt an urge to steer the cool abstraction of high modernism away from a neutral formalism toward the production of more erotic, affective environments. Lavin turns to the architecture of Richard Neutra (1892-1970) to explore the genesis of these new mood-inducing environments. In a series of(...)
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Sylvia Lavin's “Form Follows Libido” argues that by the 1950s, some architects felt an urge to steer the cool abstraction of high modernism away from a neutral formalism toward the production of more erotic, affective environments. Lavin turns to the architecture of Richard Neutra (1892-1970) to explore the genesis of these new mood-inducing environments. In a series of(...)
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Form follows libido : architecture and Richard Neutra in a psychoanalytic culture
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Sylvia Lavin's “Form Follows Libido” argues that by the 1950s, some architects felt an urge to steer the cool abstraction of high modernism away from a neutral formalism toward the production of more erotic, affective environments. Lavin turns to the architecture of Richard Neutra (1892-1970) to explore the genesis of these new mood-inducing environments. In a series of engaging essays weaving through the designs and writings of this Vienna-born, California-based architect, Lavin discovers in Neutra a sustained and poignant psychoanalytic reflection set in the context of a burgeoning psychoanalytic culture in America. Lavin shows that Neutra's redirection of modernism constituted not a lyrical regression to sentimentality but a deliberate advance of architectural theory and technique to engage the unconscious mind, fuelled by the ideas of psychoanalysis that were being rapidly disseminated at the time. In Neutra's responses to a vivid range of issues, from psychoanalysis proper to the popular psychology of tele-evangelical prayer, Lavin uncovers a radical reconstitution of the architectural discipline. Arguing persuasively that the received historical views of both psychoanalysis and architecture have led to a suppression of their compelling coincidences and unorthodoxies, Lavin sets out to unleash mid-century architecture's hidden libido. Neither Neutra nor psychoanalysis emerges unscathed from her investigation of how architecture came to be saturated by the intrigues of affect, often against its will. If Reyner Banham sought to put architecture "on the couch," then Lavin, through Neutra, leaps beyond Banham's ameliorative aim to lure contemporary architecture into the lush and dangerous liaisons of environmental design.
Form follows libido : architecture and Richard Neutra in a psychoanalytic culture
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Sylvia Lavin's “Form Follows Libido” argues that by the 1950s, some architects felt an urge to steer the cool abstraction of high modernism away from a neutral formalism toward the production of more erotic, affective environments. Lavin turns to the architecture of Richard Neutra (1892-1970) to explore the genesis of these new mood-inducing environments. In a series of engaging essays weaving through the designs and writings of this Vienna-born, California-based architect, Lavin discovers in Neutra a sustained and poignant psychoanalytic reflection set in the context of a burgeoning psychoanalytic culture in America. Lavin shows that Neutra's redirection of modernism constituted not a lyrical regression to sentimentality but a deliberate advance of architectural theory and technique to engage the unconscious mind, fuelled by the ideas of psychoanalysis that were being rapidly disseminated at the time. In Neutra's responses to a vivid range of issues, from psychoanalysis proper to the popular psychology of tele-evangelical prayer, Lavin uncovers a radical reconstitution of the architectural discipline. Arguing persuasively that the received historical views of both psychoanalysis and architecture have led to a suppression of their compelling coincidences and unorthodoxies, Lavin sets out to unleash mid-century architecture's hidden libido. Neither Neutra nor psychoanalysis emerges unscathed from her investigation of how architecture came to be saturated by the intrigues of affect, often against its will. If Reyner Banham sought to put architecture "on the couch," then Lavin, through Neutra, leaps beyond Banham's ameliorative aim to lure contemporary architecture into the lush and dangerous liaisons of environmental design.
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January 2005, Cambridge, Mass.
January 2005, Cambridge, Mass.
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x, 252 pages, 19 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
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Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, 1984, ©1980.
Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, 1984, ©1980.
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Foreign devils on the Silk Road : the search for the lost cities and treasures of Chinese Central Asia / Peter Hopkirk.
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Foreign devils on the Silk Road : the search for the lost cities and treasures of Chinese Central Asia / Peter Hopkirk.
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Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, 1984, ©1980.
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London, Phaidon, 1967.
London, Phaidon, 1967.
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Essays in the history of art presented to Rudolf Wittkower / edited by Douglas Fraser, Howard Hibbard & Milton J. Lewine.
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Essays in the history of art presented to Rudolf Wittkower / edited by Douglas Fraser, Howard Hibbard & Milton J. Lewine.
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London, Phaidon, 1967.
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ix, 340 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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Collegeville, Minn. : Liturgical Press, ©1993.
Collegeville, Minn. : Liturgical Press, ©1993.
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The pilgrim's guide to Rome's principal churches / Joseph N. Tylenda.
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The pilgrim's guide to Rome's principal churches / Joseph N. Tylenda.
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Collegeville, Minn. : Liturgical Press, ©1993.
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2 volumes : illustrations, map, plans ; 31 cm
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Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©1992.
Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©1992.
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The rotunda of Arsinoe / by James R. McCredie, Georges Roux, Stuart M. Shaw and John Kurtich ; with contributions by Phyllis Williams Lehmann, Phyllis Pray Bober and Günter Kopcke [and others].
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The rotunda of Arsinoe / by James R. McCredie, Georges Roux, Stuart M. Shaw and John Kurtich ; with contributions by Phyllis Williams Lehmann, Phyllis Pray Bober and Günter Kopcke [and others].
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Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©1992.
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Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1980.
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1980.
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The three orders : feudal society imagined / Georges Duby ; translated by Arthur Goldhammer ; with a foreword by Thomas N. Bisson.
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The three orders : feudal society imagined / Georges Duby ; translated by Arthur Goldhammer ; with a foreword by Thomas N. Bisson.
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