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Form Follows Libido

Architecture and Richard Neutra in a Psychoanalytic Culture

Form Follows Libido( )
Author: Lavin, Sylvia
ISBN:978-0-262-12268-9
Publication Date:Mar 2005
Publisher:MIT Press
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:USD $30.00
Book Description:

"Eight million Americans a year cool their heels in psychiatric waiting rooms. Design can help lower this nervous overhead." —Richard Neutra, 1954 Sylvia Lavin's Form Follows Libidoargues 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...
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Book Details
Pages:150
Detailed Subjects: Architecture / Individual Architects & Firms / General
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):8.814 x 11.232 x 0.702 Inches
Book Weight:2.1 Pounds



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