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Liane Lefaivre, a Canadian and an Austrian, is o-Professor (Professor Ordinaria, that is with a chair and tenure) of Architectural History and Theory at the University of Applied Art in Vienna Austria, now retired.
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Liane Lefaivre, a Canadian and an Austrian, is o-Professor (Professor Ordinaria, that is with a chair and tenure) of Architectural History and Theory at the University of Applied Art in Vienna Austria, now retired.
Lefaivre completed her undergraduate degree at McGill University and her doctorate at the University of Utrecht.
Her writing and research relates to two formative modern periods: first, from the Renaissance to the end of the Enlightenment, and second from the late nineteenth century to the present. She coined, with Alexander Tzonis, her partner in work and in life since 1972, the concept of Critical Regionalism, inspired by the wide-ranging aesthetic, historical, political and environmentalist writings of Lewis Mumford and they have published widely on the topic of critical regionalism as a global phenomenon, in English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Greek, German, Chinese and Japanese.
Her Leon Battista Alberti's Hypnerotomachia Poliphili. (Cambridge, MA., The M.I.T. Press: 1997) won: The Association of American Publishers Award for Best New Scholarly/Professional Book of 1997; The American association of Architects Annual Award for Best Book (in history) for 1997 and The Association of American University Publishers Award (in the category of illustrated books) for 1997. 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. Her Rebel Modernists. Viennese Architecture since Otto Wagner was chosen as a book of the year in June 2017 by the Financial Times. She has been the recipient of a Graham Foundation grant in Chicago and a grant from the FWF in Austria.
Her articles have appeared in Architecture, Architectural Record, Archithese, Korean Architect, A+U, Wonen/TABK, the magazine of the Architecture School of Tsinghua University in Beijing, Arquitectura & Vivienda, Arquitectura Viva, Forum, Design Book Review, Casabella, AMC (Architecture, Mouvement, Continuite), La revue du dix-huitieme siecle, Daedalos, A.A.Files, the Harvard Architecture Review, The Architect’s Newspaper, the New Village Journal, Pin-Up, Harvard Design Magazine and Der Standard.
She has lectured at the National Gallery in Washington, DC, Columbia University, MIT, Princeton University, the University of California at Berkeley, the Politecnico of Milan, the University of La Sapienza in Rome, the Technion in Haifa, Cambridge University, Institut Francais d’Architecture in Paris, the ACSA Meeting in Havana Cuba, the University of California in San Diego, Woodbury College in Los Angeles, the University of Michigan, Betzalel Academy in Jerusalem, the Technical University of Berlin, at the First Shenzhen Biennale in 2007, Tongji University in Shanghai, Tsinghua University in Beijing, the Central Academy of Art in Beijing, the Technical University of Istanbul, the Academy of Art in Hangzhou, the Federal University of Sao Paulo, the Federal University of Rio, and the Federal University of Brasilia, the College de France, McGill University, the Lee Kuan Yew Center for Innovative Cities, the Singapore Institute of Technology and Design, Shenkar Academy in Tel Aviv, WIZO Academy in Haifa, Clemson University, Yale University and Southeast University in Nanjing, the ETH in Zurich, the Museum für angewandte Kunst (The MAK) in Vienna.
In 2002 she curated the exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam under Rudi Fuchs based on her original research into Aldo van Eyck's playgrounds, edited the exhibition catalogue Aldo Van Eyck, The Playgrounds and the City (Summer 2002).
In 2003 she has curated an exhibition and edited a catalogue of the work of Santiago Calatrava entitled Santiago Calatrava. Like a Bird at the Kunsthistorisches Museum under Wilfried Seipel in collaboration with the Naturhistorisches Museum in Vienna, the first exhibition to bring the two museums together (Spring 2003).
In October 2010, she curated with Professor Li Kaisheng of the Chinese Academy of Art in Hangzhou the work of their joint students for a post-traumatic (the earthquake in Sichuan province of 2008) urban design plan based on playgrounds in Dujiangyuan at the Shanghai Art Biennale.
She is a member of the board of The Journal of Architecture (Royal Society of Architects, London), and she has been on the boards of Design Book Review (Berkeley), and Archithèse (Zurich) and Architecture (New York), Architect’s Newspaper (New York) Cahiers de la Recherche (French Ministry of Culture, Paris).
Hypnerotomachia Poliphili, called in English Poliphilo's Strife of Love in a Dream or The Dream of Poliphilus, is a book said to be by Francesco Colonna. It is a famous example of an incunable. The work was first published in 1499 in Venice by Aldus Manutius. This first edition has an elegant page layout, with refined woodcut illustrations in an Early Renaissance style. Hypnerotomachia Poliphili presents a mysterious arcane allegory in which the main protagonist, Poliphilo, pursues his love, Polia, through a dreamlike landscape. In the end, he is reconciled with her by the "Fountain of Venus".
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Alexander Tzonis is a Greek-born architect, author, and researcher. He has made contributions to architectural theory, history and design cognition, bringing together scientific and humanistic approaches in a synthesis. Since 1975, he has been collaborating in most projects with Liane Lefaivre. In 1985, he founded and directed Design Knowledge Systems (DKS), a multidisciplinary research institute for the study of architectural theory and the development of design thinking tools at TU Delft. Tzonis is known for his work on the classical canon, history of the emergence and development of modern architectural thinking, creative design by analogy, and introducing the idea of critical regionalism.
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