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Anthony Vidler and Terry Smith on the
"Architectures of Aftermath"
Pittsburgh
April 2-3, 2007
Profile: Anthony Vidler
Anthony Vidler has been Dean of the Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture of The Cooper Union in 2002. He is a historian and critic of modern and contemporary architecture, specializing in French architecture from the Enlightenment to the present. He received his B.A. in Architecture and Fine Arts, his Diploma in Architecture from Cambridge University, England.
Dean Vidler was a member of the Princeton University School of Architecture faculty from 1965-93, during which time he served as the Chair of the Ph.D. Committee, and Director of the Program in European Cultural Studies. He was appointed the William R. Kenan Jr. Chair of Architecture in 1990. In 1993 he took up a position as professor and Chair of the Department of Art History at UCLA, with a joint appointment in the School of Architecture from 1997.
He has received awards from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and was a Getty Scholar, at the Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities in 1992-3.
His publications include The Writing of the Walls: Architectural Theory in the Late Enlightenment (Princeton Architectural Press, 1987), Claude-Nicolas Ledoux: Architecture and Social Reform at the End of the Ancien Regime (MIT Press, 1990), The Architectural Uncanny: Essays in the Modern Unhomely (MIT Press, 1992), Antoine Grumbach (Centre Georges Pompidou, 1996), Warped Space: Architecture and Anxiety in Modern Culture (MIT Press, 2000), and Claude-Nicholas Ledoux: Architecture and Utopia in the Era of the French Revolution (Birkhauser Verlag, Berlin 2006).