Sylvia Lavin received her PhD from Columbia University, and has published Quatremère de Quincy and the Invention of a Modern Language of Architecture (1992) and Form Follows Libido: Architecture and Richard Neutra in a Psychoanalytic Culture (1995) with the MIT Press. Other books include Kissing Architecture (Princeton University Press, 2011) and Flash in the Pan (Architectural Association, 2015). Recent exhibitions include Everything Loose Will Land: Art and Architecture in Los Angeles in the 1970s. She is the Director of the Critical Studies Program in the Department of Architecture at UCLA, where she was Chairperson from 1996–2006. Lavin is the recipient of an Arts and Letters Award in Architecture from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.