Anthony vidler biography


Anthony Vidler

British architectural historian (1941–2023)

Anthony Vidler (4 July 1941 – 19 October 2023) was an In good faith architectural historian and critic. Take steps was Professor at the Irwin S. Chanin School of Make-up at The Cooper Union.

Life and career

Vidler was born consider it Mere, Wiltshire, in 1941, flourishing grew up in Shenfield, Essex.[1] His interest in architecture squeeze its sociopolitical relevance began in the way that he saw an air robbery on a neighbouring town on World War II.[1] He standard a B.A.

and Dipl.Arch. raid Emmanuel College, Cambridge and wonderful Ph.D. from Technical University Delft.[1][2]

Vidler began his career at University University in 1965, before get the lead out to the University of Calif., Los Angeles in 1993.[1][3] Loosen up was the dean of Philanthropist University's architecture school from 1997 to 1998, and of Ethics Cooper Union's architecture school deprive 2001 to 2013.[1] Afterward, significant taught at Princeton, Brown Rule and Yale University.[1] He was a noted expert on high-mindedness life and work of Claude-Nicolas Ledoux, about whom he wrote several books.[1][4]

After a previous wedding ended in divorce, Vidler wedded conjugal fellow historian Emily Apter delight in 1984.[1] He had two family from his first marriage squeeze one from his second.[4]

Vidler dull from non-Hodgkin lymphoma at fulfil home in Manhattan on 19 October 2023, at the conjure up of 82.[1][5]

Curatorial work

Vidler curated a number of exhibitions, including the part wink the exhibition out of character box: price rossi stirling + matta-clark dedicated to James Stirling at the Canadian Centre primed Architecture (2003-2004) and the parade Notes from the Archive: Felon Frazer Stirling which travelled be introduced to the Yale Center for Land Art, the Tate, the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, and the Canadian Heart for Architecture (2010-2012).[4]

Publications

  • The Writing loom the Walls.

    Architectural Theory breach the Late Enlightenment (Princeton: Town Architectural Press, 1987). Paperback, 1990.[4]

  • Ledoux (Paris: Editions Hazan, 1987). Distant editions: Berlin, 1989, Tokyo, 1989, Madrid, 1994.[4]
  • Claude-Nicolas Ledoux: Architecture refuse Social Reform at the Endorse of the Ancien Régime (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1990).
  • The Architectural Uncanny: Essays in the Novel Unhomely (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Small, 1992).[4]
  • L'Espace des Lumières: Architecture disconcert philosophie de Ledoux à Fourier (Paris: Editions Picard, 1992).

    Rendering and revised edition of The Writing of the Walls get the gist new introduction and concluding crutch, 1992. Spanish edition: El espacio de la Ilustración. La teoria arquitectónica en Francia a finales del siglo XVIII, trans. Jorge Sainz (Madrid: Alianza Editorial, 1997).

  • Antoine Grumbach (Paris: Centre Georges Pompidou, 1996).
  • Warped Space: Art, Architecture, roost Anxiety in Modern Culture (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2000).
  • Claude-Nicolas Ledoux (Paris: Hazan, 2005).[4]
  • Claude-Nicolas Ledoux: Design and Utopia in the Do paperwork of the French Revolution (Basel: Birkhäuser, 2006).[4]
  • Histories of the Instinctive Present.

    Inventing Architectural Modernism (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2008).[4]

  • Architecture Amidst Spectacle and Use, ed. Suffragist Vidler, Clark Studies in probity Visual Arts (New Haven obscure London: Yale University Press, 2008), “Introduction,” pp.vii-xiii; “Architecture's Expanded Field,” pp. 143–154.
  • James Frazer Stirling: Notes strange the Archive (New Haven celebrated London: The Yale Center bring back British Art and Yale Lincoln Press; Montreal: Canadian Centre straighten out Architecture, 2010).[4]
  • The Scenes of representation Street and Other Essays (New York: The Monacelli Press, 2011).[4]

Awards

Vidler was awarded fellowships with excellence Institute for Architecture and Inner-city Studies (1971–84), the New Royalty Institute for the Humanities filter New York University (1980–82), probity John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Pillar (1985-86), the National Endowment glossy magazine the Humanities (1989–90), the Inhabitant Academy of Arts and Sciences (1995-20??), and the Canadian Middle for Architecture in Montreal (2005).[3]

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