Form follows libido : architecture and Richard Neutra in a psychoanalytic culture /
Lavin, Sylvia,
Form follows libido : architecture and Richard Neutra in a psychoanalytic culture / Sylvia Lavin. - ix, 182 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 145-175) and index.
History by choice -- Reappropriating Neutra -- The empathic house -- Birth trauma -- The therapeutics of pleasure -- From house to habitat -- Pollution and possibility -- The survival of design. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.
"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.
0262122685 9780262122689
2004050468
Neutra, Richard Joseph, 1892-1970 --Criticism and interpretation.
Architects--Psychology
Modern movement (Architecture)
NA737.N4 / L38 2004
720.92
Form follows libido : architecture and Richard Neutra in a psychoanalytic culture / Sylvia Lavin. - ix, 182 pages : illustrations ; 29 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 145-175) and index.
History by choice -- Reappropriating Neutra -- The empathic house -- Birth trauma -- The therapeutics of pleasure -- From house to habitat -- Pollution and possibility -- The survival of design. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.
"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.
0262122685 9780262122689
2004050468
Neutra, Richard Joseph, 1892-1970 --Criticism and interpretation.
Architects--Psychology
Modern movement (Architecture)
NA737.N4 / L38 2004
720.92