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Reassessing Rudolph (Paperback)
Timothy M Rohan; Contributions by Kazi K. Ashraf, Lizabeth Cohen, Brian Goldstein, Pat Kirkham, …
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R791
Discovery Miles 7 910
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American architect Paul Rudolph (1918-1997) was internationally
known in the 1950s and early 1960s for his powerful, large-scale
concrete buildings. Hugely influential during his lifetime, Rudolph
was one of the most significant American architects of his
generation. To a remarkable extent, his reputation rose and fell
with the fortunes of postwar modernism in America. This insightful
book reconsiders Rudolph's architecture and the discipline's
assessment of his projects. It includes nearly a dozen essays by
well-known scholars in the fields of architectural and urban
history, all of which shed new light on Rudolph's theories and
practices. Contributions explore the architect's innovative use of
materials, including plywood, Plexiglas, and exposed concrete; the
places he lived and worked, from the Anglo-American axis to the
Bengal delta; his affiliation with CIAM (Congres Internationaux
d'Architecture Moderne); and currents within his philosophy of
architecture. Distributed for the Yale School of Architecture
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 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 engaging 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. Lavin shows that Neutra's
redirection of modernism constituted not a lyrical regression to
sentimentality but a deliberate advance of architectural theory and
technique to engage the unconscious mind, fueled by the ideas of
psychoanalysis that were being rapidly disseminated at the time. In
Neutra's responses to a vivid range of issues, from psychoanalysis
proper to the popular psychology of tele-evangelical prayer, Lavin
uncovers a radical reconstitution of the architectural discipline.
Arguing persuasively that the received historical views of both
psychoanalysis and architecture have led to a suppression of their
compelling coincidences and unorthodoxies, Lavin sets out to
unleash midcentury architecture's hidden libido. Neither Neutra nor
psychoanalysis emerges unscathed from her investigation of how
architecture came to be saturated by the intrigues of affect, often
against its will. If Reyner Banham sought to put architecture "on
the couch," then Lavin, through Neutra, leaps beyond Banham's
ameliorative aim to lure contemporary architecture into the lush
and dangerous liaisons of environmental design.
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