Sylvia Lavin: From the Postmodern to Postmodernization

While histories of architectural postmodernism remain predominantly concerned with problems of visual style, the radical impact of postmodernization on architectural procedures continue to be largely overlooked. Architecture Itself and Other Postmodernist Myths places the information-driven logic of the late twentieth century at the forefront of a counter-narrative of postmodern architecture.
Sylvia Lavin received her Ph.D. from the Department of Art and Archaeology at Columbia University in 1990 after having received fellowships from the Getty Center, the Kress Foundation and the Social Science Research Council. The MIT Press published her first books Quatremère de Quincy and the Invention of a Modern Language of Architecture and Form Follows Libido: Architecture and Richard Neutra in a Psychoanalytic Culture in 1992 and 2005. Her most recent books include, Kissing Architecture (Princeton University Press, 2011), Flash in the Pan (AA Publications, 2014), and Architecture Itself and Other Postmodernization Effects (Spector Books, 2020). Lavin is an active curator of architecture and design, she has curated Architecture Itself and Other Postmodernist Myths (CCA, Montreal, 2018) and Everything Loose Will Land (MAK/Schindler House, Los Angeles; Yale School of Architecture, New Haven; Graham Foundation, Chicago, 2013-14), among others. She is Professor of Architecture at Princeton University and was Director of the Critical Studies M.A. and Ph.D. program in the Department of Architecture and Urban Design at UCLA, where she was Chairperson from 1996 to 2006. Sylvia Lavin is the recipient of an Arts and Letters Award in Architecture from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
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