Architectural Uncanny Essays in the Modern Unhomely

Name: Architectural Uncanny Essays in the Modern Unhomely
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ISBN: 9780262720182

ISBN-10: 0262720183

ISBN-13: 9780262720182

Edition: 1994

Authors: Anthony Vidler

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The Architectural Uncannypresents 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…

Book details

List price: $40.00
Copyright year: 1994
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 3/29/1994
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 274
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.66" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English



Preface


Introduction


Unhomely Houses


Burned Alive


Homesickness


Nostalgia


Architecture Dismembered


Losing Face


Trick/Track


Shifting Ground


Homes for Cyborgs


Dark Space


Posturbanism


Psychometropolis


Oneirism


Vagabond Architecture


Transparency


Notes


Acknowledgments


Index