Sylvia Lavin Livres

Exploring the intersection of modern architecture and psychology, the book examines how architectural design reflects the emotional needs and anxieties of society. It discusses the idea that thoughtful design can alleviate mental stress, echoing Richard Neutra's assertion from 1954 about the therapeutic potential of architecture. By analyzing the relationship between the built environment and the human psyche, it highlights the role of architecture in addressing the complexities of modern life.

Sylvia Lavin uncovers the origins of one of the fundamental concepts of modern architectural theory, the idea that architecture is a form of language.

Architecture Itself and Other Postmodernist Myths' brings together an array of building fragments, drawings, models, and primary source documents, to present canonic projects from an unexpected and unfamiliar point of view. The exhibition challenges the typical narrative of the heroic architect by revealing a counter- reading of postmodern procedures. The purpose is simultaneously to deflate the postmodern mythologizing of the architect and inflate the importance of empirically describable architectural activity. In so doing, the exhibition will make original contributions both to a counter-historiography of the postmodern and to contemporary curatorial method. A broad selection of material evidence -- gathered from building sites, libraries, and archives -- supports accounts of architects? and architecture?s entanglements with bureaucracy, the art market, and academic and private institutions, as postmodernization challenged the discipline to redefine its modes of practice and reconsider the very idea of architecture itself.00Exhibition: CCA, Montréal, Canada (07.11.2018 - 07.04.2019).

Coop Himmelblau is not a color but an idea, of creating architecture with fantasy, as bouyant and variable as clouds (1968). --"For us, it was very important to make a statement. First, we had the chance to contribute to the rising imagae of downtown. Second was the content. This is a high school for the arts. I think it's the one and only school that brings together the content and the architecture in this way."--Wolf D. Prix --Book Jacket.