Sylvia Lavin is a critic, curator, historian and theorist whose work explores the limits of architecture across a broad spectrum of historical periods. She is Professor of Architecture at Princeton University and is the former Chair of the Department of Architecture and Urban Design at UCLA. Her publications include Architecture Itself and Other Postmodernization Effects (Leipzig: Spector Books; Montreal: Canadian Center for Architecture, 2020), Kissing Architecture (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2011), and Everything Loose Will Land: 1970s Art and Architecture in Los Angeles (Nürnberg: Verlag für moderne Kunst, 2013). She earned her doctorate from the Department of Art and Archaeology at Columbia University, and has received numerous awards and fellowships, including from the Getty Research Institute, the Graham Foundation, the AIA, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

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