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The Architectural Uncanny: Essays in the Modern Unhomely

By Anthony Vidler

Book information

Publisher
MIT Press
Year
1994
ISBN
0262720183, 9780262720182
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
10 MB (10921272 bytes)
Edition
Paperback
Pages
274\266
Time added
2018-07-27 20:04:49

Description

"Brilliant.... Anthony Vidler is a conceptual conjurer of formidable skill." -- J. Mordaunt Crook, "New York Times Book Review" The Architectural Uncanny presents an engaging and original series of meditations on issues and figures that are at the heart of the most pressing debates surrounding architecture today. Anthony Vidler interprets contemporary buildings and projects in light of the resurgent interest in the uncanny as a metaphor for a fundamentally "unhomely" modern condition. The essays are at once historical and theoretical, opening up the complex and difficult relationships between politics, social thought, and architectural design in an era when the reality of homelessness and the idealism of the neo-avant-garde have never seemed so far apart.

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