TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lavin,Sylvia
TI  - Form follows libido: architecture and Richard Neutra in a psychoanalytic culture 
SN  - 0262122685
AV  - NA737.N4 L38 2004
U1  - 720.92 22
PY  - 2004///]
CY  - Cambridge, Mass.
PB  - MIT Press
KW  - Neutra, Richard Joseph,
KW  - Architects
KW  - Psychology
KW  - Modern movement (Architecture)
N1  - 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
N2  - "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
ER  -