Anthony Vidler

Details

Nationality

British-American

Classifications

Holder

Individual

Source of authority

Reason

Subject

Human centred

Mode of transmission

Text drawing

Knowledge type

Propositional

Epistemic cluster

Western philosophical

Notes

Named as one of few commentators (1992; 2000) concerned to show how much a 'negative' and apparently non-normative aesthetics is in fact based on older concepts of sublimity and picturesqueness, ultimately triangulated with beauty; also credited with early translations of Barthes's ideas on de Sade into eighteenth-century architecture (1987) and later theorisation of the psychopathologies of space.

Connections

• authored The Architectural Uncanny: Essays in the Modern Unhomely
• proposed The Architectural Uncanny

Referenced by

• Adolf Loos influenced

Sources

1. Anthony Vidler. The Architectural Uncanny: Essays in the Modern Unhomely. MIT Press, 1992.
2. in Crysler, Cairns & Heynen (eds), The SAGE Handbook of Architectural Theory, SAGE, 2012 — export p. 7-8 of 19; also export p. 18 of 19
3. in Crysler, Cairns & Heynen (eds), The SAGE Handbook of Architectural Theory, SAGE, 2012 — export p. 18 of 34