TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lavin,Sylvia
TI  - Kissing Architecture
T2  - Point: essays on architecture
SN  - 9780691149233 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
AV  - N72.A75 L38 2011
U1  - 724.7 22
PY  - 2011///
CY  - United States
PB  - Point
KW  - Art and architecture
KW  - History
KW  - 21st century
KW  - Local
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [115]-120); "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" --
ER  -