Form follows libido : architecture and Richard Neutra in a psychoanalytic culture / Sylvia Lavin.
"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 (1892-197...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
MIT Press,
[2004]
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| Summary: | "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 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."--BOOK JACKET. |
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| Physical Description: | ix, 182 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 145-175) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0262122685 9780262122689 |