Kissing architecture / Sylvia Lavin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lavin, Sylvia, author.

Contributor:

Princeton University Press, publisher.

Series:

Point (Princeton, N.J.)

Point

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art and architecture--History--21st century.

Art and architecture.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (134 p.)

Edition:

Course Book

Place of Publication:

Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2011]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"Kissing Architecture explores the mutual attraction between architecture and other forms of contemporary art. In this fresh, insightful, and beautifully illustrated book, renowned architectural critic and scholar Sylvia Lavin develops the concept of "kissing" to describe the growing intimacy between architecture and new types of art--particularly multimedia installations that take place in and on the surfaces of buildings--and to capture the sensual charge that is being designed and built into architectural surfaces and interior spaces today. Initiating readers into the guilty pleasures of architecture that abandons the narrow focus on function, Lavin looks at recent work by Pipilotti Rist, Doug Aitken, the firm Diller Scofidio + Renfro, and others who choose instead to embrace the viewer in powerful affects and visual and sensory atmospheres"--Publisher's description.

Contents:

The First Kiss

Confounding Mediums

Superarchitecture

Current Kisses.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 115-120).

Description based on print version record and online resource (A&AePortal, viewed on October 25, 2022).

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9786613051783

9780300269505

0300269501

9781283051781

1283051788

9781400838387

140083838X

OCLC:

731952868