SPRING 2013 - Artifice books on architecture

8 history and theory
neW titles 9
the third typology
and other essays
the third typology and other essays comprises a collection of anthony
vidler’s writings, opening with his 1976 editorial for oppositions, “the
third typology.” Looking at theory and design from 1965 through to
today, vidler analyses changing ideas in the theory and history of
architecture through a wide selection of essays and extracts from sources
such as oppositions, the princeton Journal, beaux-arts, skyline, and
artforum. included among this selection of essays is a section dedicated
to the Ledoux Museum he designed for the saline de chaux, france.
anthony vidler is a leading architectural historian, critic and theorist. he
has received awards and fellowships from the guggenheim foundation
and the canadian centre for architecture (cca) and was a getty
scholar for art history. he is a fellow of the american academy of arts
and sciences, and received the architecture award from the american
academy of arts and Letters in 2011. anthony vidler is professor and
dean of the irwin s chanin school of architecture, cooper union.
other publications by vidler include claude-nicolas Ledoux: architecture
and social reform at the end of the ancient regime which won the
society of architectural historians’ henry-russell hitchcock award, the
architectural uncanny: essays in the Modern unhomely and warped
space: architecture and anxiety in Modern culture, histories of the
immediate present: inventing architectural Modernism, and James frazer
stirling: notes from the archive.
author: anthony Vidler
august <strong>2013</strong>
hardback • isbn 978 1 908967 15 2
rrp £29.95 / €34.95 / $45.00
28 x 23 cm / 9 x 11 in
349 colour and b/w ills • 288 pages
related title:
alan colquhoun
collected essays in architectural criticism
isbn 978 1 906155 20 9