The Architectural Uncanny
Essays in the Modern Unhomely
Anthony Vidler

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Auteur(s)

Anthony Vidler

Uitgever, jaar

Cambridge, Mass. ; London : The MIT Press, 1996

Omvang

257 p., geïllustreerd, 23 cm.

ISBN

0262720183

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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. Vidler 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 architecture - 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.

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Locatie in de bibliotheek

Kast 19 - 4: Architectuur en onbehagen

Extra thema's

Architecture and Art, Body and Architecture, Body and Space, Residents and the built environment ;

Opmerkingen

Incl. biliographical references and Index.