Architecture Words, 13: Flash in the pan

In this collection of meditations on what Baudelaire defended (and Michael Fried punished) as presentness, Lavin investigates the convergence of notions such as vividness, the provisional and the obsolete to reveal qualities of the contemporary. Three sets of essays explore different forms of architectural time, especially as they shape the differences between history, theory, and creation tica as genres of writing. 264 p.: B/w, 18x11 cm., paperback