Sylvia Lavin is a Professor of History and Theory of Architecture at Princeton University, School of Architecture. She was previously the head of the Ph.D. in Architecture program from 2007-2017 and Professor of Architectural History and Theory at

UCLA The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public land-grant research university in Los Angeles, California. UCLA's academic roots were established in 1881 as a teachers college then known as the southern branch of the California St ...

, where she was Chairperson of the department of Architecture and Urban Design from 1996 to 2006. Lavin is also a frequent visitor at

Harvard Graduate School of Design The Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) is the graduate school of design at Harvard University, a private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It offers master's and doctoral programs in architecture, landscape architecture, urban ...

and was a Visiting Professor of Architectural Theory at

Princeton University School of Architecture Princeton University School of Architecture is the name of the school of architecture at Princeton University. Founded in 1919, the School is a center for teaching and research in architectural design, history, and theory. The School offers an und ...

. She is a member of the Board of Trustees of the

Canadian Centre for Architecture The Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA; french: Centre Canadien d'Architecture) is a Architecture museum, museum of architecture and research centre in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is located at 1920, rue Baile (1920, Baile Street), between r ...

. A leading figure in current debates, Lavin is known both for her scholarship and for her criticism in contemporary architecture and design. Lavin has been a Fellow and a Scholar in Residence at the

Getty Research Institute The Getty Research Institute (GRI), located at the Getty Center in Los Angeles, California, is "dedicated to furthering knowledge and advancing understanding of the visual arts".

, and is the recipient of a 2011 Arts and Letters Award in Architecture from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Lavin curated the exhibition "Architecture Itself and Other Postmodernist Myths" in 2018, which explores the impact of postmodern procedures and information-driven logic in architecture, and the exhibition "Take Note" in 2010, exploring pivotal moments in the relationship between writing and architecture, both presented at the

. Her publications include ''The Flash in the Pan'', published by the

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in 2015 and ''Kissing Architecture'', published by

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in 2011. She is an editor of ''Crib Sheets'', a compilation of polemical writings and sound bites on current buzzwords issued by Monacelli Press and her ''Form Follows Libido: Architecture and

Richard Neutra Richard Joseph Neutra ( ; April 8, 1892 – April 16, 1970) was an Austrian-American architect. Living and building for the majority of his career in Southern California, he came to be considered a prominent and important modernist architect. He ...

in a Psychoanalytic Culture'' was published by

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in 2005. She received her M.A. and Ph.D. from

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(

GSAPP Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP) is the architecture school of Columbia University, a private research university in New York City. It is regarded as an important and highly prestigious architecture school.

) and her B.A. from

Barnard College Barnard College of Columbia University is a private women's liberal arts college in the borough of Manhattan in New York City. It was founded in 1889 by a group of women led by young student activist Annie Nathan Meyer, who petitioned Columbia ...

. Lavin's dissertation was published as ''

Quatremère de Quincy Antoine-Chrysostome Quatremère de Quincy (21 October 1755 – 28 December 1849) was a French armchair archaeologist and architectural theorist, a Freemason, and an effective arts administrator and influential writer on art. Life Born in Paris, ...

'' ''and the Invention of a Modern Language of Architecture'' by MIT Press in 1992.

Publications

* ''The Flash in the Pan and Other Forms of Architectural Contemporaneity'', Architectural Association Publications, 2015 * ''Kissing Architecture'', Princeton University Press, 2011 * ''Crib Sheets: Notes on the Contemporary Architectural Conversation'' (Editor), Monacelli Press, 2005 * ''Form Follows Libido: Architecture and Richard Neutra in a Psychoanalytic Culture'', MIT Press, 2005 * ''Quatremere de Quincy and the Invention of a Modern Language of Architecture'', MIT Press, 1992

References

External links

*http://www.aud.ucla.edu/ *Princeton University Article https://soa.princeton.edu/content/sylvia-lavin *https://www.sciarc.edu/events/lectures/sylvia-lavin/ *https://archinect.com/news/article/149278965/the-ascendancy-of-theory-writer-and-theorist-sylvia-lavin-on-archinect-sessions-one-to-one-13 {{DEFAULTSORT:Lavin, Sylvia Barnard College alumni Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation alumni UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture faculty American architectural historians Year of birth missing (living people) Living people American women historians Historians from California 21st-century American women