Lavin, IrvingIrvingLavin2019-05-012019-05-012013Lavin, Irving, “WHIMSY: An Allegory of Urbane Urban Patronage, from Rome to Montreal," (Revised and expanded version of essay first presented at a symposium in celebration of Phyllis Lambert’s Eightieth Birthday, January 24, 1927, at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, October 20, 2007, organized by Sylvia Lavin), published in Log: Observations on Architecture and the City, 15, 2009, 75-87.https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12111/6561Lavin, Irving, “WHIMSY: An Allegory of Urbane Urban Patronage, from Rome to Montreal," (Revised and expanded version of essay first presented at a symposium in celebration of Phyllis Lambert’s Eightieth Birthday, January 24, 1927, at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, October 20, 2007, organized by Sylvia Lavin), published in Log: Observations on Architecture and the City, 15, 2009, 75-87. Italian translation in Lavin, L’arte della storia dell’arte, Milan, 2008, 132-41. Updated version, 2013.whimsyurban patronagePhyllis Lambertmodern architecturewestern historyArticle