Form follows libido : architecture and Richard Neutra in a psychoanalytic culture / Sylvia Lavin.
Form follows libido : architecture and Richard Neutra in a psychoanalytic culture / Sylvia Lavin.
Form follows libido : architecture and Richard Neutra in a psychoanalytic culture / Sylvia Lavin.
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Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2004.
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NQ720.92/65
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English
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ix, 182 p. : ill., ports. ; 29 cm.
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.
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Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2004.
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Massachusetts
Date Published
c2004.
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"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 environ...
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Form follows libido : architecture and Richard Neutra in a psychoanalytic culture / Sylvia Lavin.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 145-175) and index.
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c2004.
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NQ720.92/65
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74VKPGPgMAgM
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKPGPgMAgM
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0262122685 (alk. paper)
9780262122689 (alk. paper)
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720.92
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991019680649702626
