Anthony Vidler (born July 4, 1941, in Salisbury Plain, United Kingdom) is Professor at the Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture at
The Cooper Union
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. He is an
architectural historian
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Professional requirements
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and critic.
Education
Anthony Vidler received a
B.A.
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and Dipl.Arch from
Cambridge University
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and a
Ph.D.
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from
Technical University Delft
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.
Teaching
Vidler has taught at
Brown University
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,
The Cooper Union
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,
UCLA
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,
Cornell University
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, and
Princeton University
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He has been awarded fellowships with the
Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies
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IAUS (1967–1984)
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(1971–84), the
New York Institute for the Humanities The New York Institute for the Humanities (NYIH) is an academic organization founded by Richard Sennett in 1976 to promote the exchange of ideas between academics, writers, and the general public. The NYIH regularly holds seminars open to the publ ...
at
New York University
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In 1832, the ...
(1980–82), the
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
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(1985-86), the
National Endowment for the Humanities
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(1989–90), the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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(1995-present), and the
Canadian Centre for Architecture
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in
Montreal
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(2005).
Curatorial work
Vidler has curated several exhibitions since the late 1980s, including the part of the exhibitio
''out of the box: price rossi stirling + matta-clark''dedicated to
James Stirling at the
Canadian Centre for Architecture
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(2003-2004) and the exhibitio
''Notes from the Archive: James Frazer Stirling''which travelled to the
Yale Center for British Art
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, the
Tate
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, the
Staatsgalerie Stuttgart
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, and the
Canadian Centre for Architecture
The Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA; french: Centre Canadien d'Architecture) is a Architecture museum, museum of architecture and research centre in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is located at 1920, rue Baile (1920, Baile Street), between r ...
(2010-2012).
Publications
*''The Writing of the Walls. Architectural Theory in the Late Enlightenment'' (Princeton: Princeton Architectural Press, 1987). Paperback, 1990.
*''Ledoux'' (Paris: Editions Hazan, 1987). Foreign editions: Berlin, 1989, Tokyo, 1989, Madrid, 1994.
*''Claude-Nicolas Ledoux: Architecture and Social Reform at the End of the Ancien Régime'' (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1990).
*''The Architectural Uncanny: Essays in the Modern Unhomely'' (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1992).
*''L'Espace des Lumières: Architecture et philosophie de Ledoux à Fourier'' (Paris: Editions Picard, 1992). Translation and revised edition of ''The Writing of the Walls'' with new introduction and concluding chapter, 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, and Anxiety in Modern Culture'' (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2000).
*''Claude-Nicolas Ledoux'' (Paris: Hazan, 2005).
*''Claude-Nicolas Ledoux: Architecture and Utopia in the Age of the French Revolution'' (Basel: Birkhäuser, 2006).
*''Histories of the Immediate Present. Inventing Architectural Modernism'' (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2008).
*''Architecture Between Spectacle and Use'', ed. Anthony Vidler, Clark Studies in the Visual Arts (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2008), “Introduction,” pp.vii-xiii; “Architecture's Expanded Field,” pp. 143–154.
*
James Frazer Stirling: Notes from the Archive' (New Haven and London: The Yale Center for British Art and Yale University Press; Montreal:
Canadian Centre for Architecture
The Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA; french: Centre Canadien d'Architecture) is a Architecture museum, museum of architecture and research centre in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is located at 1920, rue Baile (1920, Baile Street), between r ...
, 2010).
*''The Scenes of the Street and Other Essays'' (New York: The Monacelli Press, 2011).
References
External links
Anthony Vidler: How to Invent Utopia: The Fortunes and Misfortunes of Plato's Polis Canadian Centre for Architecture
The Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA; french: Centre Canadien d'Architecture) is a Architecture museum, museum of architecture and research centre in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is located at 1920, rue Baile (1920, Baile Street), between r ...
, 17 May 2005
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Alumni of the University of Cambridge
Living people
Delft University of Technology alumni
Brown University faculty
Cooper Union faculty
University of California, Los Angeles faculty
Princeton University faculty
Cornell University faculty
Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
1941 births