Warped Space: Art, Architecture, and Anxiety in Modern Culture

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MIT Press, 22‏/02‏/2002 - 316 من الصفحات
How psychological ideas of space have profoundly affected architectural and artistic expression in the twentieth century.

Beginning with agoraphobia and claustrophobia in the late nineteenth century, followed by shell shock and panic fear after World War I, phobias and anxiety came to be seen as the mental condition of modern life. They became incorporated into the media and arts, in particular the spatial arts of architecture, urbanism, and film. This "spatial warping" is now being reshaped by digitalization and virtual reality. 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, while relying on traditional perspective, have radically transformed the composition, production, and experience—perhaps even the subject itself—of architecture.

 

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Introduction
Constructing the Void from Pascal to Freud
16
Psychopathologies of Urban Space
24
Le Corbusier Ayn Rand and the Idea of Ineffable Space
50
The Architecture of Estrangement Simmel Kracauer Benjamin
64
Walter Benjamin and the Space of Distraction
80
Architecture and the Filmic Imaginary
98
The City as Film in Kracauer Benjamin and Eisenstein
110
Mike Kelleys Educational Complex
Martha Roslers Passages
4
Coop Himmelblaus Expressionist Utopia
Eric Owen Moss in Culver City
The Neoformations of Morphosis
8
Folded Forms from Leibniz to Lynn
Daniel Libeskind and the Postspatial Void
Prehistoric SubjectsPosthistoric Identities
8

The Exhaustion of Space at the Scene of the Crime
122
Vito Acconcis Public Realm
8
Rachel Whitereads Postdomestic Casts
Toba Khedooris Architectural Fragments

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Anthony Vidler is Dean and Professor of the Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture at The Cooper Union, New York. He is the author of Warped Space: Art, Architecture, and Anxiety in Modern Culture (2000), and The Architectural Uncanny: Essays in the Modern Unhomely (1992), both published by The MIT Press, and other books.

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