TY  - BOOK
AU  - Vidler, Anthony 
TI  - The Architectural Uncanny: Essays in the Modern Unhomely
SN  - 9780262720182
U1  - VSCL 
PY  - 1994///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - MIT Press
KW  - Architecture
KW  - Architecture in literature
KW  - Benefit system
KW  - Psychological aspects
KW  - Welfare system
N1  - The Architectural Uncanny presents 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 seemed so far apart
ER  -