Anthony Vidler: A Selective Bibliography

Compiled by Aileen Smith, January 2007

This bibliography consists of a selective list of books and articles relating to
Anthony Vidler. Those books held within the AA Library are indicated with a shelfmark.

Books (Alphabetically by title)

Agrest and Gandelsonas: works, with an introduction by Anthony Vidler
New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1995 ISBN 1878271903
AA SHELFMARK: 72.036(82):92AGR AGR

Anymore / edited by Cynthia Davidson Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2000

ISBN 0262541106 (contributors of conference include Anthony Vidler)
AA SHELFMARK: 72.01.036 ANY

Anyone / edited by Cynthia Davidson New York: Rizzoli, 1991

ISBN 0847855929
AA SHELFMARK: 72.01.036 ANY

Architectural uncanny: essays in the modern unhomely London: MIT Press,

1992
ISBN 026222044X
AA SHELFMARK: 72.01:8-4 VID

Architecture theory since 1968 / edited by K Michael Hays Cambridge, Mass.:

MIT Press, 1998 ISBN 0262082616 (includes writings/projects by Anthony
Vidler)
AA SHELFMARK: 72.01.036 HAY

At the end of the century: one hundred years of architecture / organized by

Richard Koshalek and Elizabeth A T Smith; edited by Russell Ferguson
New York: Abrams, 1998 ISBN 0810919869 (includes essay by Anthony Vidler)
AA SHELFMARK: 72.036 KOS

Claude-Nicolas Ledoux: architecture and social reform at the end of the Ancien
Regime / Anthony Vidler London: MIT Press, 1990 ISBN 0262220326
AA SHELFMARK: 72.034.88(44):92LED VID

Claude-Nicolas Ledoux: architecture and utopia in the era of the French

Revolution / Anthony Vidler Basel: Birkhauser, 2006 ISBN 3764374853
AA SHELFMARK: 72.034.88(44):92LED VID

Daniel Libeskind: space of encounter / Daniel Libeskind; preface by Jeffrey

Kipnis; afterword by Anthony Vidler London: Thames and Hudson, 2001
ISBN 0500282579
AA SHELFMARK: 72.036(73):92LIB LIB

Eisenman / Krier: two ideologies: a conference at the Yale School of Architecture

/ edited by Cynthia Davidson New York: Monacelli Press, 2004
ISBN 1580931391 (includes contribution by Anthony Vidler)
AA SHELFMARK: 72.01.036:92EIS DAV

Eric Owen Moss: buildings and projects 2 / introduction by Anthony Vidler;

compiled by Brad Collins New York: Rizzoli, 1996 ISBN 0847819108
AA SHELFMARK: 72.036(73):92MOS MOS

Film architecture: set design from Metropolis to Blade Runner / edited by Dietrich
Neumann Munich: Prestel, 1996 ISBN 3791316052 (includes essay by
Anthony Vidler)
AA SHELFMARK: 791.4 NEU

Follies: architecture for the late twentieth-century landscapes / B J Archer and

Anthony Vidler New York: Rizzoli, 1983 ISBN 0847805107
AA SHELFMARK: 725.763 ARC

Fresh: Morphosis 1998-2004 / essays by Peter Cook et al; introduction by Thom

Mayne and contributions by Steven Holl, Jeffrey Kipnis, Sylvia Lavin, Lars Lerup,
Eric Owen Moss, Wolf D Prix, Michael Sorkin, Anthony Vidler and Lebbeus Woods
New York: Rizzoli, 2006 ISBN 0847828034
AA SHELFMARK: 72.036(794):92MOR MOR

Lebbeus Woods: system Wien / edited by Peter Noever; with contributions by

Manuel DeLanda, Anthony Vidler, Lebbeus Woods
Ostfildern-Ruit: Hatje Cantz,
2005 ISBN 3775716645
AA SHELFMARK: 72.036(73):92LEB NOE

Light construction reader / edited by Todd Gannon New York: Monacelli Press,
2002 ISBN 1580931057 (includes essay by Anthony Vidler)
AA SHELFMARK: 628.9:72.036 GAN

Little house: an architectural seduction / preface by Anthony Vidler

Princeton Architectural Press, 1996 ISBN 1568980175
AA SHELFMARK: 72:8-3 DEB

New York:

Lorcan OHerlihy / forward by Anthony Vidler; introduction by Edward

Dimendberg; concept and design by Lucas H Guerra, Oscar Riera Ojeda
Gloucester, Mass.: Rockport Publishers, 1999 ISBN 156496504X
AA SHELFMARK: 72.036(73):92OHE OHE

Morphosis: buildings and projects 1993-1997 / Thom Mayne; essays by Thom

Mayne, Tony Robbins, Anthony Vidler
New York: Rizzoli, 1999
ISBN 0847820742
AA SHELFMARK: 72.036:92MOR MAY

Oppositions reader: selected readings from a journal for ideas and criticism in
architecture 1973-1984 / edited and with an introduction by K Michael Hays
New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 1998
ISBN 1568981538 (includes
contribution by Anthony Vidler)
AA SHELFMARK: 72.01.036 OPP

Peter Eisenman: feints / edited by Silvio Cassara; includes texts by Anthony

Vidler, Jeffrey Kipnis Milan: Skira, 2006 ISBN 887624378X
AA SHELFMARK: 72.036(73):92EIS CAS

Public intimacy: architecture and the visual arts / Giuliana Bruno, with a preface
by Anthony Vidler
Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, April 2007
ISBN 9780262524650
AA SHELFMARK: ON ORDER

Re: working Eisenman / Peter Eisenman London: Academy Editions, 1993

ISBN 1854901125 (includes From tattoo to trinket by Anthony Vidler)
AA SHELMARK: 72.01.036:92EIS EIS

Shadowed / Victor Burgin; with an essay by Anthony Vidler

Publications, 2000 ISBN 1902902165

London: AA

AA SHELFMARK: 7:654:159.953 BUR

Theorizing a new agenda for architecture: an anthology of architectural theory

1965-1995 / edited by Kate Nesbitt New York: Princeton Architectural Press,
1996 ISBN 1568980531 (includes The Third Typology by Anthony Vidler)
AA SHELFMARK: 72.01.036:8-82 NES

Warped space: art, architecture, and anxiety in modern culture / Anthony Vidler
Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2000 ISBN 026222061X
AA SHELFMARK: 72.01.036 VID

Wiel Arets architecton the occasion of the presentation of the RotterdamMaaskant Award for Young Architects, October 1989 / Anthony Vidler
Rotterdam: Uitgeverij 010 Publishers, 1989
AA SHELFMARK: 72.036(492):92ARE VID

Writing of the walls: architectural theory in the late Enlightenment / Anthony

Vidler New Jersey: Princeton Architectural Press, 1986 ISBN 091041307X
AA SHELFMARK: 72.034.9(44) VID

Journal Articles (Chronologically by year and month)

2006
Open theory seminar: Anthony Vidler [interview] / article by Anthony Vidler and
Mark Cousins
in AA Files no.54 Summer 2006 / p.62-66
2005
Re JD: remembering Jacques Derrida (part 2) / article by Thomas Keenan and
Anthony Vidler
in Grey Room no.21 Fall 2005 / p.95-127
Vagabond architecture John Hejduks travelling works of architecture / article
by Anthony Vidler
in Lotus International no.124 June 2005 / p.49-57 (text in
Italian+English)
2004
Anthony Vidler of the Irwin S Chanin School of Architecture of the Cooper Union
and Mark Wigley of the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning &
Preservation, Columbia University in conversation
in AD Profile 171 (Back to School) Architectural Design vol.74 no.5
September/October 2004 / p.13-23
2003
Still wired after all these years? / article by Anthony Vidler
in Log no.1 Fall 2003 / p.59-63

Box score: Anthony Vidler on DIA: Beacon / article by Anthony Vidler

(conversion of 1929 Nabisco box-printing factory into a contemporary art
museum; Architects: OpenOffice and Robert Irwin)
in Artforum, 42 (2) October 2003 / p.47
Transparency: literal and phenomenal / article by Anthony Vidler
in Journal of Architectural Education vol.56 no.4 May 2003 / p.6-7
2002
Warped space: art, architecture, and anxiety in modern culture, by Anthony
Vidler [book review]
in AA Files no.47 Summer 2002 / p.79-80
The Ledoux effect: Emil Kaufmann and the claims of Kantian autonomy / article
by Anthony Vidler
in Perspecta no.33 2002 / p.16-29
2001
Vidler to head post-Hejduk Cooper / article by Andrew Yang
in Architecture (New York) vol.90 no.9 September 2001 / p.23-25
Vidler named Cooper Union dean
in Architectural Record vol.189 no.9 September 2001 / p.46
Critique. The medium and its message, or Im sorry, Dave, I dont have enough
information / article by Anthony Vidler
in Architectural Record vol.189 no.5 May 2001 / p.71-72
Rachel Whitereads post-domestic casts / article by Anthony Vidler
in Werk, Bauen + Wohnen vol.88/55 no.3 March 2001 / p.10-17
(text in German+French (p.60-61)+English (p.64, 66-68)
2000
Modernisms en abime: notes on Smith-Miller & Hawkinsons house for a film
producer / article by Anthony Vidler
in Praxis vol.1 no.1 2000 / p.68-71
Horror vacui: notes on the void / article by Anthony Vidler
in ANY: Architecture New York no.27 2000 / p.2A

Disenchanted histories: the legacies of Manfredo Tafuri / article by Anthony

Vidler
in ANY: Architecture New York no.25/26 2000 / p.29-36
1999/2000
Diagrams of utopia / article by Anthony Vidler
in Daidalos no74 December 1999/January 2000 / p.6-13
German+English)

(text in

1999
Technologies of space spaces of technology / article by Anthony Vidler
in Society of Architectural Historians Journal vol.58 no.3 September
1999 / p.482-486
1997
Momas and magmas / article by Anthony Vidler
in Lotus International no.95 December 1997 / p.24-26 (text in
Italian+English)
Academy Forum: Transgressions: Crossing the Lines of Art and Architecture
(discussion held in London at the Royal Academy: participants included Robert
Maxwell, Anthony Vidler, Richard MacCormac and Bruce McLean)
in Architectural Design vol.68 no.7-8 July-August 1997 / p.16-23
Public fear / article by Anthony Vidler
in ANY: Architecture New York no.18 1997 / p.12-13
The exhaustion of space at the scene of the crime / article by Anthony Vidler
in ANY: Architecture New York no.18 1997 / p.48-51
1996
RIBA Annual Discourse 1996. Architecture after history: nostalgia and modernity
at the end of the century / article by Anthony Vidler
in Journal of Architecture vol.1 no.3 Autumn 1996 / p.177-187
Vidler on the hoof / article by Anthony Vidler (edited extract from Anthony
Vildlers The anxiety of space: essays in the psychopathologies of modernism)
in RIBA Journal vol.103 no.6 June 1996 / p.27, 29

1994
Two or three things I know about him (Colin Rowe) / article by Anthony Vidler
in ANY: Architecture New York no.7/8 1994 / p.44-47
1993
The explosion of space: architecture and the filmic imaginary / article by
Anthony Vidler
in Assemblage no.21 August 1993 / p.44-59
The architectural uncanny: essays in the modern unhomely by Anthony Vidler
[book review] / reviewed by Timothy W Hyde
in Sites (25) 1993 / p.163-165
1992
Explosion of rooms: architecture and imagination in film / article by Anthony
Vidler
in Archithese vol.22 no.5 September/October 1992 / p.24-37 (text
in German)
The architectural uncanny: essays in the modern unhomely by Anthony Vidler
[book review] / reviewed by Mark Cousins
in AA Files no.24 Autumn 1992 / p.110-111
Claude-Nicolas Ledoux: architecture and social reform at the end of the Ancien
Regime by Anthony Vidler [book review] / reviewed by Sere Colomb
in AA Files no.24 Autumn 1992 / p.110-111
Un museo per Ledoux ad Arc-et-Senans]; Architects: Anthony Vidler, Pierre
Schall, and Gilles Vignier
in Domus no.737 April 1992 / p.20 (text in Italian+English)
History, criticism and theory / article by Anthony Vidler
in Lotus International no.72 1992 / p.130-135 (text in
Italian+English)

1991
Researching revolutionary architecture [the French Revolution] / article by
Anthony Vidler
in Journal of Architectural Education vol.44 no.4 August 1991 /
p.206-210
The (re)vision of Ledoux / article by Thomas Fisher, and Anthony Vidler
in Progressive Architecture vol.72 no.5 May 1991 / p.106-116, 193
1990
The buiding in pain / article by Anthony Vidler
in AA Files no.19 Spring 1990 / p.3-10
Centro medico e casa dabitazione, Hapert/Olanda [Medical centre and house,
Hapert]; Architects: Wiel Arets / article by Anthony Vidler
in Domus no.715 April 1990 / p.38-45, XXIII (text in
Italian+English)
1989
Losing face: notes on the modern museum / article by Anthony Vidler
in Assemblage no.9 June 1989 / p.40-57
The writing of the wallsLedoux.both by Anthony Vidler [book reviews]
reviewed by Robin Middleton
in AA Files no.17 Spring 1989 / p.105-106
Opere recenti di Frank O Gehry [Recent works by Frank O Gehry] / article by
Anthony Vidler
in Casabella vol.53 no.555 March 1989 / p.4-21, 59-60 (text in
Italian+English)
1988
Bernard Tschumi / article by Bernard Tschumi and Anthony Vidler
in A+U: Architecture and Urbanism no.9 (216) September 1988 /
p.9-68 (text in Japanese+English)

After the end of the line / article by Anthony Vidler

in A+U: Architecture and Urbanism no.8 supplement August 1988 /
p.147-164 (text in Japanese+English)
Peter Reyner Banham deceased in London / article by Anthony Vidler
in A+U: Architecture and Urbanism no.7 (214) July 1988 / p.4-5
(text in Japanese+English)
Notes on the sublime: from neoclassicism to postmodernism / article by
Anthony Vidler
in Princeton Journal vol.3 1988 / p.165-191
1987
The architecture of the uncanny: the unhomely houses of the romantic sublime
/ article by Anthony Vidler
in Assemblage no.3 July 1987 / p.6-29
1986
Architectural cryptograms: style and type in romantic historiography / article by
Anthony Vidler
in Perspecta no.22 1986 / p.136-141, 189
Loft, furniture design, New York; Architects: George Ranalli / article by Anthony
Vidler
in Domus no.672 May 1986 / p.50-55 (text in Italian+English)
1985
The castle in the house; Architect for conversion of 19th-century schoolhouse:
George Ranalli / article by Anthony Vidler
in Lotus International no.46 1985 / p.54-61 (text in
Italian+English)
1984
The rhetoric of monumentality: Ledoux and the Barriers of Paris / article by
Anthony Vidler
in AA Files no.7 September 1984 / p.14-29

Asylums of libertinage: Sade, Fourier, Ledoux / article by Anthony Vidler

in Lotus International no.44 1984 / p.28-40 (text in
Italian+English)
1983
The return to the origins: rituals of initiation in late eighteenth century France /
article by Anthony Vidler
in Princeton Journal vol.1 1983 / p.116-125
1981/1982
The theatre of production. Claude-Nicolas Ledoux and the architecture of social
reform / article by Anthony Vidler
in AA Files vol.1 no.1 Winter 1981/1982 / p.54-63
1980
Architecture and limits (1) [an examination of the limits of architectural
design, includes The writings of the wall, a project, by Anthony Vidler]
in Artforum, 19 (4) December 1980 / p.36-44
1978
The Beaux-arts / article by Robin Middleton and others (includes The writing
on the wall by Anthony Vidler)
in Architectural Design vol. 48 no.11-12 1978 / p.1-89
1977
Paris under the Academy: City and ideology / article by Anthony Vidler and
others
in Oppositions no.8 Spring 1977 / p.1-157
1976/1977
Runcorn: historical precedent and the rational design process / article by
Werner Seligman and Anthony Vidler
in Oppositons no.7 Winter 1976-1977 / p.8-23

1976
The architecture of the Lodges: ritual form and associational life in the late
Enlightenment / article by Anthony Vidler
in Oppositions no.5 Summer 1976 / p.75-97
1973
News from the realm of no-where / article by Anthony Vidler
in Oppositions no.1 September 1973 / p.83-92

Websites
www.cooper.edu/architecture/faculty/faculty/vidler.html
www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/arthist/cv/vidler.htm

Compiled by Aileen Smith, Deputy Librarian

January 2007