The Architectural Uncanny: Essays in the Modern Unhomely

The Architectural Uncanny: Essays in the Modern Unhomely

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Book Description
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.

About the Author
Anthony Vidler is Professor of Art History and Architecture and Chair of the Department of Art History at the University of California, Los Angeles.

The Architectural Uncanny: Essays in the Modern Unhomely,Anthony Vidler,The MIT Press,0262720183,Architecture,General,Planning,Architecture / General

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