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Architecture's growing intimacy with new types of art

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.

Kissing Architecture is the first book in a cutting-edge new series of short, focused arguments written by leading critics, historians, theorists, and practitioners from the world of urban development and contemporary architecture and design. These books are intended to spark vigorous debate. They stake out the positions that will help shape the architecture and urbanism of tomorrow. Addressing one of the most spectacular and significant developments in the current cultural scene, Kissing Architecture is an entertainingly irreverent and disarmingly incisive book that offers an entirely new way of seeing--and experiencing--architecture in the age after representation.

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CHOICE Review

This is the inaugural offering in "POINT: Essays on Architecture," a series of deliberately provocative, extended essays on contemporary architecture; it is a good beginning. Lavin (UCLA) offers the kiss as an ideal metaphor for successful architecture. She describes the kiss as the sympathetic and challenging touching of independent but responsive entities. She goes on to explore different ways architecture can be enlivened with reference to the idea of the kiss through discussions of the touching of disciplines, notably architecture and art; media, notably fixed surfaces and moving images; circumstance and perception, especially at the meeting of exterior and interior space; and ways of understanding, notably between production and criticism. The book's arguments are framed by well-chosen, nicely illustrated case studies. Although this volume is well written, it is not easy to read. The language is at once specific and referential, poetic and evocative. While the writing may limit the audience, the book presents important and relevant ideas that deserve consideration. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-level undergraduates through professionals/practitioners. D. Sachs Kansas State University

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Sylvia Lavin is professor of architecture and urban design at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her books include Form Follows Libido: Architecture and Richard Neutra in a Psychoanalytic Culture .