Vidler, Anthony

Born in 1941 in the United Kingdom and died in 2023, Anthony Vidler was an architectural historian and critic. He taught at many of America’s leading universities, and was dean of the faculties of architecture at Cornell and the Cooper Union. His work is divided between an original knowledge of the revolutionary moment (Ledoux in particular) and a reflection on the conditions of architectural history and criticism since the Moderns (“Histories of the Immediate Present”). Between the two, so to speak, he has explored the psychic impact of spaces (with “Warped spaces, Art, Architecture and Anxiety in Modern Culture or The Architectural Uncanny, Essays in the modern Unhomely”).