The Architectural Uncanny: Essays in the Modern Unhomely/ (Record no. 4932)
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780262720182 |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Vidler, Anthony |
| 9 (RLIN) | 7133 |
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| Title | The Architectural Uncanny: Essays in the Modern Unhomely/ |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. | Anthony Vidler |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. | |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. | The MIT Press; |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 1994 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 274p; |
| Dimensions | 23x15cm |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | 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 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. 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 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. 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. |
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| Language note | English |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Modern condition |
| 9 (RLIN) | 7134 |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element | NA 2599.5-2599.9 Architectural Criticism |
| 9 (RLIN) | 7135 |
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| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Damaged status | Not for loan | Collection | Home library | Current library | Date acquired | Source of acquisition | Total Checkouts | Full call number | Barcode | Date last seen | Price effective from | Koha item type |
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| Architecture | SAF Reference Library | SAF Reference Library | 02/17/2025 | SB16- Reading rooms- Requested by Moza Al Mazrouei | NA2599.5-2599.9 221.85 | 4932 | 02/17/2025 | 02/17/2025 | Book |