Lavin is also a frequent visitor at Harvard Graduate School of Design and was a visiting professor of architectural theory at Princeton University School of Architecture.
[3] A leading figure in current debates, Lavin is known both for her scholarship and for her criticism in contemporary architecture and design.
Lavin has been a fellow and a scholar in residence at the Getty Research Institute,[4] and is the recipient of a 2011 Arts and Letters Award in Architecture from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
[8] She is an editor of Crib Sheets, a compilation of polemical writings and sound bites on current buzzwords issued by Monacelli Press and her Form Follows Libido: Architecture and Richard Neutra in a Psychoanalytic Culture was published by MIT Press in 2005.
Lavin's dissertation was published as Quatremère de Quincy and the Invention of a Modern Language of Architecture by MIT Press in 1992.