Von … bis, from… to: The Arc of Anthony Vidler's Architecture

IF 0.4 4区社会学 N/A HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

OCTOBER Pub Date : 2024-04-01 DOI:10.1162/octo_a_00512

Spyros Papapetros

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Abstract Architectural historians often manifest a strong design impulse in their writing. This essay traces the theoretical arc traversing Anthony Vidler's individual essays and book projects as the parabolic imprint of his historiographic design. Based on unpublished manuscripts of the architectural historian's preliminary book outlines, drafts, and reading notes on authors such as Émile Zola, Sigmund Freud, and Georges Bataille, the article follows the route from Vidler's early research on utopia, Claude Nicholas Ledoux, and ideas of the French Enlightenment to his later books on “the architectural uncanny” and modern spatial psychopathologies in “warped space,” foregrounding the continuity of Vidler's “historical project” from the Enlightenment to the histories of twentieth-century architectural modernism. The article closes with an overview of Vidler's two latest book projects (currently unpublished), “Architecture After the Rain,” an autobiographically driven reevaluation of architectural modernism in Britain after World War II, and “Second Best Utopia,” a compilation of essays on “Utopics” from Plato to Fredric Jameson that argues for the abiding relevance of utopian ideas in the present.

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从......到......：安东尼-维德勒的建筑之弧

摘要建筑史学家在其著作中往往表现出强烈的设计冲动。这篇文章追溯了安东尼-维德勒个人论文和图书项目的理论弧线，这是他史学设计的抛物线印记。文章基于这位建筑历史学家未发表的初步著作大纲手稿、草稿以及关于埃米尔-左拉（Émile Zola）、西格蒙德-弗洛伊德（Sigmund Freud）和乔治-巴塔耶（Georges Bataille）等作家的读书笔记，从维德勒早期对乌托邦、克劳德-尼古拉斯-勒杜（Claude Nicholas Ledoux、和法国启蒙思想的研究，到他后来关于 "建筑的不可思议 "和 "扭曲空间 "中的现代空间精神病理学的著作，突出了维德勒的 "历史项目 "从启蒙运动到二十世纪建筑现代主义历史的连续性。文章最后概述了维德勒的两个最新著作项目（目前尚未出版），即《雨后建筑》和《第二好乌托邦》，前者是以自传形式重新评价二战后英国的建筑现代主义，后者则是关于从柏拉图到弗雷德里克-詹姆逊的 "乌托邦 "的论文汇编，论证了乌托邦思想在当下的持久相关性。

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OCTOBER HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY-

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0.10

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期刊介绍： At the forefront of art criticism and theory, October focuses critical attention on the contemporary arts and their various contexts of interpretation: film, painting, music, media, photography, performance, sculpture, and literature. Examining relationships between the arts and their critical and social contexts, October addresses a broad range of readers. Original, innovative, provocative, each issue presents the best, most current texts by and about today"s artistic, intellectual, and critical vanguard.

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