![]() ![]() ![]() While the choice of most of these architects seems obvious with regard to an investigation into the unheimlich, in the case of others the uncanny appears to turn up in the strangest of places. While the first part of this collection contains an historical overview of the theme of the uncanny since its emergence in the early nineteenth century (with the haunted houses of the romantics, the archaeological excavations that would reveal the “dark side of classicism,” and the related excursions of philosophy and psychology into the sublime and the unconscious), the second and third parts extend this theme into recent architectural and urban projects by designers such as Coop Himmelblau, James Stirling, Bernard Tschumi, Peter Eisenman, Elizabeth Diller and Ricardo Scofidio, Rem Koolhaas and the Office of Metropolitan Architecture, Wiel Arets, and John Hejduk. First appearing in often fugitive publications between 19, Anthony Vidler’s diverse yet oddly familiar essays have found a convenient and timely second home in The Architectural Uncanny. ![]()
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