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Sylvia Lavin Appointed Chair of UCLA's Department of Architecture and Urban Design

Carolyn Campbell (ccampbel@arts.ucla.edu) (310) 825-6540
For Immediate Use Thursday, October 17, 1996.

Architectural historian and critic Sylvia Lavin has been named chair of the Department of Architecture and Urban Design in the UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture. The appointment, effective Sept. 15, was announced by Dean Daniel Neuman.

"Sylvia Lavin is well known to the faculty in the department where she has taught for the past five years. She brings an international reputation for her scholarly writings and contributions to the field to UCLA. We welcome her to her new position and look forward to many productive years ahead," said Dean Daniel Neuman.

Lavin received her Ph.D. from the Department of Art and Archaeology at Columbia University in 1990 after having received fellowships from the Getty Center, the Kress Foundation and the Social Science Research Council. Her book "Quatremere de Quincy and the Invention of a Modern Language of Architecture" was published by the MIT Press in 1992, the year she joined the faculty of the former School of Architecture and Urban Planning at UCLA. She writes widely on architectural history and theory for journals such as Assemblage, The Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians and Any, serves frequently as a design juror and is active as an editorial consultant.

Lavin has taught at Columbia, Harvard, the Southern California Institute of Architecture and USC and lectures frequently throughout the United States and in Europe. She is working on a book on psychology and American Modernism.

The Department of Architecture and Urban Design supports the rigorous exploration of the discipline in all its creative, humanistic and technological facets. Through processes of investigation, research and instruction, students are provided with a broad and rigorous understanding of the field. The department offers two professional degrees (the Master of Architecture I and II) as well as the M.A. and Ph.D. in architectural technology; design and computation; history and theories of architecture; and policy, programming and evaluation.

Department of Architecture and Urban Design faculty: Dana Cuff, Charles Eastman, Diane Favro, Thomas S. Hines, Craig Hodgetts, Jurg Lang, Sylvia Lavin, Daniel Libeskind, Robin Liggett, Mark Mack, Barton Myers, George Rand, Ben Refuerzo, Dagmar Richter, Kostas Terzidis, Anthony Vidler and Richard Weinstein.

Emeritus, studio, visiting, adjunct and lecturer faculty: Marvin Adelson, Samuel Aroni, Hagy Belzberg, Barbara Bestor, Isabelle Biro, Victoria Casasco, John Dale, Julie Koning Eizenberg, Baruch Givoni, Charles Jencks, F. Eugene Kupper, Malcolm Lewis, Thom Mayne, Murray Milne, Celia Miller, Marcos Novak, Barton Phelps, Goetz Schierle, Richard Schoen, Judith Sheine, Roger Sherman, Thomas R. Vreeland, Wolfgang Wagener and Buzz Yudell.

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Contact: Carolyn Campbell
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