Anthony Vidler

Anthony Vidler (born July 4, 1941 in Salisbury Plain, United Kingdom) is Professor at the Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture at The Cooper Union. He is an architectural historian and critic.

Anthony Vidler received a B.A. and Dipl.Arch from Cambridge University and a Ph.D. from Technical University Delft:.

Vidler has taught at Brown University, The Cooper Union, UCLA, Cornell University, and Princeton University

He has been awarded fellowships with the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies (1971-84), the New York Institute for the Humanities at New York University (1980-82), the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (1985-86), the National Endowment for the Humanities (1989-90), the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1995-present), and the Canadian Center of Architecture in Montreal (2005).

Vidler has curated several exhibitions since the late 1980s. Most recently, he curated "Notes From the Archive: James Frazer Stirling, Architect and Teacher" in collaboration with the Canadian Center for Architecture in 2010.

Books by Anthony Vidler

The Scenes of the Street and Other Essays (New York: The Monacelli Press, 2011)

James Frazer Stirling: Notes from the Archive (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2010)

Histories of the Immediate Present. Inventing Architectural Modernism (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2008)

Architecture Between Spectacle and Use, ed. Anthony Vidler , Clark Studies in the Visual Arts (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2008), “Introduction,” pp.vii-xiii; “Architecture’s Expanded Field,” pp. 143-154.

Claude-Nicolas Ledoux: Architecture and Utopia in the Age of the French Revolution (Basel: Birkhauser, 2006).

Claude-Nicolas Ledoux (Paris, Hazan, 2005).

Warped Space: Art, Architecture, and Anxiety in Modern Culture (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2000).

Antoine Grumbach (Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou, 1996).

The Architectural Uncanny: Essays in the Modern Unhomely (Cambridge, Mass.:M.I.T. Press, 1992).

L'Espace des Lumières: Architecture et philosophie de Ledoux à Fourier (Paris: Editions Picard, 1992). Translation and revised edition of The Writing of the Walls with new Introduction and concluding chapter, 1992. Spanish edition: El espacio de la Ilustración. La teoria arquitectónica en Francia a finales del siglo XVIII, trans. Jorge Sainz (Madrid: Alianza Editorial, 1997).

Claude-Nicolas Ledoux: Architecture and Social Reform at the End of the Ancien Régime (Cambridge, Mass.: M.I.T. Press, 1990).

The Writing of the Walls. Architectural Theory in the Late Enlightenment (Princeton: Princeton Architectural Press, 1987). Paperback, 1990.

Ledoux (Paris: Editions Hazan, 1987).Foreign Editions: Berlin, 1989,Tokyo, 1989, Madrid, 1994.