Main entry:

Vidler, Anthony.

Title & Author:

Warped space : art, architecture, and anxiety in modern culture / Anthony Vidler.

Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2000.

Description:

ix, 301 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-293) and index.
Horror Vacui: Constructing the Void from Pascal to Freud -- Agoraphobia: Psychopathologies of Urban Space -- Framing Infinity: Le Corbusier, Ayn Rand, and the Idea of "Ineffable Space" -- Spaces of Passage: The Architecture of Estrangement: Simmel, Kracauser, Benjamin -- Dead End Street: Walter Benjamin and the Space of Distraction -- The Explosion of Space: Architecture and the Filmic Imaginary -- Metropolitan Montage: The City as Film in Kracauer, Benjamin, and Eisenstein -- X Marks the Spot: the Exhaustion of Space at the Scene of the Crime -- Home Alone: Vito Acconci's Public Realm -- Full House: Rachel Whiteread's Postdomestic Casts" -- Lost in Space: Toba Khedoori's Architectural Fragments.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

This work traces the emergence of a psychological idea of space from Pascal to Freud to the identification of agoraphobia and claustrophobia in the 19th- and 20th-century theories of spatial alienation/estrangement.

ISBN:

026222061X (hc ; alk. paper)
9780262220613 (hc ; alk. paper)
0262720418
9780262720410

Subject:

Space (Architecture) Psychological aspects.
Espace (Architecture) Aspect psychologique.
Architektur
Architekturtheorie
Stadtentwicklung
Bouwkunst.
Ruimte (algemeen)
Psychologische aspecten.
Arquitetura (aspectos psicológicos)
Espaço (estética)
Espace (architecture) Aspect psychologique.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 213204
Call No.: NA2765 .V5 2000
Status: Available