Sylvia Lavin Delivers the Lois E. Toko Lecture

Sylvia Lavin, a critic, curator and historian, will deliver the Lois E. Toko lecture as part of the department of architecture’s fall lecture series on Thursday, Oct. 7 at 5:30 p.m. in the Olver Design Building Atrium.

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Lavin will give the talk “A Work on Paper, a Plantation, and a Polariser: An Environmental History of Cedric Price’s Generator.”

Lavin is professor of architecture at Princeton University and was professor in the department of architecture and urban design at UCLA, where she was chairperson from 1996 to 2006. Lavin received her Ph.D. from Columbia University and MIT Press published her first books, “Quatremère de Quincy and the Invention of a Modern Language of Architecture” and “Form Follows Libido: Architecture and Richard Neutra in a Psychoanalytic Culture.”

More recent books and catalogs include “Kissing Architecture,” Architecture Itself and Other Postmodernization Effects” and “Everything Loose Will Land: 1970s Art and Architecture in Los Angeles.” Lavin is currently working on a book about trees.

Co-sponsored by the Lois E. Toko Lecture Series Endowment, the Five College Architectural Theory Seminar, Amherst College architectural studies and Mount Holyoke College architectural studies.