Liane Lefaivre

Liane Lefaivre is Professor and Chair of Architectural History and Theory at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna Austria. She has been a visiting Fellow at MIT and the National University of Singapore and is a researcher at the Technical University of Delft. Her writing and research relates to two formative modern periods: that is from the Renaissance to the end of the Enlightenment and from the late 19th century to the present. She is also a Principle, Integration Playgrounds (PIP) activist.

Her Leon Battista Alberti's Hypnerotomachia Poliphili. Re-Configuring the Architectural Body in the Early Italian Renaissance (Cambridge, MA., The M.I.T. Press: 1997) which won:

Her Architecture in Europe since 1960 was a New York Times Book of the Year in 1995 and won the American Association of Architects Annual Award for best book in criticism.

She has also published, with the financial assistance of the Graham Foundation, a documentary history of the modernization of architecture from the early Renaissance to the end of the 18th century, entitled The Origins of Modern Architecture (in Dutch, De Oorsprong van de moderne architectuur, Nijmegen, SUN: 1984, now in its second printing); Architectural Thinking (Het architectonisch denken, Nijmegen,SUN: 1991). She has also published Classical Architecture. She co authored the book Problems of Judgement in Programmatic Analysis in Architecture (1974).The Poetics of Order (Cambridge, MA.,The MIT Press: 1986. Now in its 7th printing and translated into French, Spanish, German and Japanese). She has published The Emergence of the Modern (Routledge, 2003) and Critical Regionalism (Prestel, 2003), all in collaboration with Alexander Tzonis.

She collaborated with her long-time partner Alex Tzonis in introducing to the field the concept of Critical Regionalism (1981) and Populism (1976) to architecture. They were the first to introduce the notion of strangemaking to architecture (1986). She also introduced the concept of Dirty Realism to architecture through many articles, starting in 1989. She has published and lectured widely on all. Among her books are Architecture in North America since 1960 (Boston, Little, Brown; London, Thames and Hudson: 1995), Architecture in Europe since 1968 (London, Thames and Hudson; New York, Rizzoli: 1993) now in paperback (1997), Movement and Structure in the Work of Santiago Calatrava (Basel, Birkhaüser: 1996), again, in collaboration with Alex Tzonis. She also co-edited with him Tropical Architecture; Critical Regionalism in an Age of Globalization (Wiley, 2001) and published Aldo van Eyck Humanist Rebel (010, 1999), Critical Regionalism (Munich, Prestel, 2003), and Ground-Up City; Play as a Design Tool (Rotterdam, 010, 2006, in collaboration with Dollab).

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