Form Follows Libido: Architecture and Richard Neutra in a Psychoanalytic Culture

by Sylvia Lavin

Book Overview

How modern architecture came to embrace the urges and fears of the affective unconscious.

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 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262622130
• ISBN13: 9780262622134
• Release Date: September 2007
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 1.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.6" x 10.7"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher