The Architectural Uncanny: Essays in the Modern Unhomely

By Anthony Vidler

Book Overview

The Architectural Uncanny presents an engaging and original series of mediations 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 - serving to situate contemporary discourse in its own intellectual tradition - 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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 026222044X
• ISBN13: 9780262220446
• Release Date: May 1992
• Publisher: MIT Press (MA)
• Length: 257 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.4"