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Form follows libido : architecture and Richard Neutra in a psychoanalytic culture / Sylvia Lavin.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2004]Copyright date: ©2004Description: ix, 182 pages : illustrations ; 29 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0262122685
  • 9780262122689
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 720.92 22
LOC classification:
  • NA737.N4 L38 2004
Contents:
1. History by choice -- 2. Reappropriating Neutra -- 3. The empathic house -- 4. Birth trauma -- 5. The therapeutics of pleasure -- 6. From house to habitat -- 7. Pollution and possibility -- 8. The survival of design.
Review: "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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Includes bibliographical references (pages 145-175) and index.

1. History by choice -- 2. Reappropriating Neutra -- 3. The empathic house -- 4. Birth trauma -- 5. The therapeutics of pleasure -- 6. From house to habitat -- 7. Pollution and possibility -- 8. The survival of design.

"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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