Westside Shopping and Leisure Center is a multi-use facility that combines a shopping center with 60 shops, a food court, restaurants, a multiplex cinema, a hotel, wellness center, center and senior residence. Designed to replicate a medieval city, Westside adopts all the functions of a 21st century public space by incorporating multi-level rooms, alleys and plazas, which are accentuated by the changing daylight that reaches all of the unique spaces through skylights and clearstories. “Westside is an exciting 21st century community that dramatically reinvents the concept of shopping, entertainment, wellness and living,” said architect Daniel Libeskind.
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Richard Neutra
Singleton House Richard Neutra, 1959
Form Follows Libido is a facinating book by architectural theorist Sylvia Lavin which documents how some architects directed the abstraction of high modernism away from a neutral formalism toward the production of more erotic, affective environments. Focusing on California-based Richard Neutra (1892-1970) she explores the genesis of these new mood-inducing environments set against a background of fetishized domestic architecture and popularist therapeutic culture of 50's America.
Kaufmann House, Richard Neutra, 1946
She reveals how Neutra's redirection of modernism constituted not a lyrical regression to sentimentality but a deliberate advance of architectural theory and technique to engage the unconscious mind, fueled by the ideas of psychoanalysis that were disseminated at the time.
"Eight million Americans a year cool their heels in psychiatric waiting rooms. Design can help lower this nervous overhead." Richard Neutra, 1954
