FLASH IN THE PAIN

Flash in the Pan is the newest addition to the Architecture Words series, published by AA Publications. In this collection of medita tions on what Baudelaire championed (and Michael Fried chastised) as presentness, Lavin investigates the convergence of notions such as liveness, the provisional and the obsolete in revealing qualities of the contemporary. Three sets of essays explore different fo rms of architectural time, particularly as they shape the differences between history, theory and criticism as genres of writing.