| Description |
ix, 301 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Horror Vacui: Constructing the Void from Pascal to Freud -- Agoraphobia: Psychopathologies of Urban Space -- Framing Infinity: Le Corbusier, Ayn Rand, and the Idea of "Ineffable Space" -- Spaces of Passage: The Architecture of Estrangement: Simmel, Kracauser, Benjamin -- Dead End Street: Walter Benjamin and the Space of Distraction -- The Explosion of Space: Architecture and the Filmic Imaginary -- Metropolitan Montage: The City as Film in Kracauer, Benjamin, and Eisenstein -- X Marks the Spot: the Exhaustion of Space at the Scene of the Crime -- Home Alone: Vito Acconci's Public Realm -- Full House: Rachel Whiteread's Postdomestic Casts" -- Lost in Space: Toba Khedoori's Architectural Fragments -- Deep Space/Repressed Memory: Mike Kelley's Educational Complex -- Terminal Transfer: Martha Rosler's Passages -- Angelus Novus: Coop Himmelblaus's Expressionist Utopia -- Beyond Baroque: Eric Owen Moss In Culver City -- Death Cube "K": The Neoformations of Morphosis -- Skin and Bones: Folded Forms from Leibniz to Lyn -- Building in Emply Spaces: Daniel Libeskind and the Postspatial Void -- Planets, Comets, Dinosaurs: (and Bugs) Prehistoric Subjects/Posthistoric Identities |
| Summary |
Anthony Vidler is concerned with two forms of warped space. The first, a psychological space, is the repository of neuroses and phobias. This space is not empty but full of disturbing forms, including those of architecture and the city. The second kind of warping is produced when artists break the boundaries of genre to depict space in new ways. Vidler traces the emergence of a psychological idea of space from Pascal and Freud to the identification of agoraphobia and claustrophobia in the nineteenth century to twentieth-century theories of spatial alienation and estrangement in the writings of Georg Simmel, Siegfried Kracauer, and Walter Benjamin. Focusing on current conditions of displacement and placelessness, he examines ways in which contemporary artists and architects have produced new forms of spatial warping. The discussion ranges from theorists such as Jacques Lacan and Gilles Deleuze to artists such as Vito Acconci, Mike Kelley, Martha Rosler, and Rachel Whiteread. Finally, Vidler looks at the architectural experiments of Frank Gehry, Coop Himmelblau, Daniel Libeskind, Greg Lynn, Morphosis, and Eric Owen Moss in the light of new digital techniques that have radically transformed the composition, production, and experience of architecture |
| Notes |
Second printing: 2001 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index of names |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [259]-293) and index |
| Subject |
Khedoori, Toba.
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Space (Architecture) in art.
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Space (Architecture) -- Psychological aspects.
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| Author |
Khedoori, Toba.
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| LC no. |
00026898 |
| ISBN |
026222061X : |
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0262720418 paperback |
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