Kissing architecture

134 Pages·2011·4.99 MB·English

by  Lavin, Sylvia

Kissing Architecture
Sarah Whiting
SerieS editor
Kissing
Architecture
Sylvia Lavin
Princeton University Press Princeton & Oxford
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Lavin, Sylvia.
Kissing architecture / Sylvia Lavin.
p. cm. — (Point: essays on architecture)
ISBN 978-0-691-14923-3 (alk. paper)
1. Art and architecture—History—21st century. I. Title.
N72.A75L38 2011
724’.7—dc22
2010028286
British Library Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available
This book has been composed in Helvetica and Scala
Printed on acid-free paper. ∞
Printed in China
10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
For Greg
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Contents
the First Kiss 1
Confounding Mediums 22
Superarchitecture 51
Current Kisses 65
Notes 115
Credits 121
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“An art professor once told me that in composition, elements should either overlap
or there should be some space between them; that it produces discomfort when
things were tangential. He called this phenomenon kissing. . . .” 1
John Baldessari,
Kissing Series: Simone
Palm Trees (Near),
1975. two color
photographs on board,
10 × 8 in. (25.4 × 20.3
cm.) each