Anthony Vidler Livres

Claude-Nicolas Ledoux (1736–1806) is the „boldest and most extreme” (Nikolaus Pevsner) French revolutionary architect. Since the 1930s, when he was rediscovered by Emil Kaufmann in the famous study “From Ledoux to Le Corbusier,” his visionary but widely realized buildings have served as a source of inspiration for unusual designs. His famous tollgates are familiar to every cultured traveler to Paris, and the TV film on the Royal Saltworks of Arc-et-Senans has also brought fresh proof of his popular appeal.

A title that presents the concepts and techniques which begins with a brief introduction and history of tensors, followed by the study of systems of different orders, Einstein summation convention, kronecker symbol leading to the concepts of tensor algebra and tensor calculus. It concludes with a study in Riemannian geometry.

This collection of essays covers a broad range of topics in architecture from Le Corbusier to contemporary problems in the field and will have strong trade appeal.

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 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.

This work traces the emergence of a psychological idea of space from Pascal to Freud to the identification of agoraphobia and claustrophobia in the 19th- and 20th-century theories of spatial alienation/estrangement

Claude-Nicolas Ledoux (1736-1806) is today regarded as chief representative of French revolutionary architecture. With his extraordinary inventiveness he projected the architectural ideals of his era. Ledoux’s influential buildings and projects are presented and interpreted both aesthetically and historically in this book. His best-known projects – the Royal Saltwords of Arc-et-Senans, the tollgates of Paris, the ideal city of Chaux – reveal the architect’s allegiance to the principles of antiquity and Renaissance but also illustrate the evolution of his own utopian language. With the French Revolution, Ledoux ceased building as his contemporaries perceived him as a royal architect. He focused on the development of his architectural theory and redefined the vision of the modern architect.

Soubor esejí věnovaných významu třech základních architektonických prvků: sloupu, vázy, obelisku. Sborník představuje tyto elementy v retrospektivě kritického pohledu na vývoj architektonického myšlení od pravěku do současnosti. Mezinárodní uměnovědný diskurs emeritních profesorů Pennsylvánské universtiy (J. Rykwert), University Anglie (John Onions), Cambridgeské university (Dalibor Veselý), spolu s děkanem Cooper Union, New York (Antony Vidler) a ředitelem Sbírky moderního a současného umění Národní galerie v Praze Tomášem Vlčkem přináší nový pohled na roli základních prvků jazyka architektury.