Essays in the Modern Unhomely
Anthony Vidler
- Author(s)
- Anthony Vidler
- Publication, year
- Cambridge, Mass. ; London : The MIT Press, 1996
- Scope
- 257 Pages, illustrated, 23 cm.
- ISBN
- 0262720183
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.
- Location
- Cabinet 19 - 4: Architectuur en onbehagen
- Extra themes
- Architecture and Art, Body and Architecture, Body and Space, Residents and the built environment ;
- Remarks
- Incl. biliographical references and Index.
