1992, ISBN: 026222044X

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[EAN: 9780262220446], Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, [PU: The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts & London England], Jacket, First Edition; Second Printing stated,1992. 256 pages with spa… Mehr…

[EAN: 9780262220446], Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, [PU: The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts & London England], Jacket, First Edition; Second Printing stated,1992. 256 pages with sparse illustrations.Vidler architectural critic and historian is currently Dean and Professor of the Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture at The Cooper Union, New York. He previously taught at Brown University, The Cooper Union, UCLA, Cornell University, and Princeton University." 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 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 historicalâ€"serving to situate contemporary discourse in its own intellectual tradition and theoreticalâ€"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. Vidler, one of the deftest and surest critics of the contemporary scene, explores aspects of architecture through notions of the uncanny as they have been developed in literature, philosophy, and psychology from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the present. He interprets the unsettling qualities of today's architectureâ€"its fragmented neo-constructivist forms reminiscent of dismembered bodies, its "seeing walls" replicating the passive gaze of domestic cyborgs, its historical monuments indistinguishable from glossy reproductions - in the light of modern reflection on questions of social and individual estrangement, alienation, exile, and homelessness. Focusing on the work of architects such as Bernard Tschumi, Rem Koolhaas, Peter Eisenman, Coop Himmelblau, John Hejduk, Elizabeth Diller, and Ricardo Scofidio, as well as theorists of the urban condition, Vidler delineates the problems and paradoxes associated with the subject of domesticity." 256 pp., Books<

1992, ISBN: 9780262220446

First Edition; Second Printing stated,1992. 256 pages with sparse illustrations.Vidler architectural critic and historian is currently Dean and Professor of the Irwin S. Chanin School of … Mehr…

First Edition; Second Printing stated,1992. 256 pages with sparse illustrations.Vidler architectural critic and historian is currently Dean and Professor of the Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture at The Cooper Union, New York. He previously taught at Brown University, The Cooper Union, UCLA, Cornell University, and Princeton University."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 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 historicalserving to situate contemporary discourse in its own intellectual tradition and theoreticalopening 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.Vidler, one of the deftest and surest critics of the contemporary scene, explores aspects of architecture through notions of the uncanny as they have been developed in literature, philosophy, and psychology from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the present. He interprets the unsettling qualities of today's architectureits fragmented neo-constructivist forms reminiscent of dismembered bodies, its "seeing walls" replicating the passive gaze of domestic cyborgs, its historical monuments indistinguishable from glossy reproductions - in the light of modern reflection on questions of social and individual estrangement, alienation, exile, and homelessness.Focusing on the work of architects such as Bernard Tschumi, Rem Koolhaas, Peter Eisenman, Coop Himmelblau, John Hejduk, Elizabeth Diller, and Ricardo Scofidio, as well as theorists of the urban condition, Vidler delineates the problems and paradoxes associated with the subject of domesticity.", The MIT Press, 1992, 3<

1992, ISBN: 026222044X

Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, [PU: MIT Cambridge 1992, Cambridge], Very good+ tight bright condition softcover ISBN 0-262-22044-X. 8vo. From Larry McMurtry's Last Book Sale, Archer City … Mehr…

Gebraucht, sehr guter Zustand, [PU: MIT Cambridge 1992, Cambridge], Very good+ tight bright condition softcover ISBN 0-262-22044-X. 8vo. From Larry McMurtry's Last Book Sale, Archer City TX. August 2012<