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Anthony Vidler is Dean and Professor, The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture, The Cooper Union. He received his undergraduate and graduate degrees in architecture from Cambridge University, and his PhD from the Technical University, Delft. He taught at Princeton University from 1965-1992, directing the PhD program and the Program in European Cultural Studies. From 1992 to 2001 he was Chair and Professor of the Department of Art History, UCLA. He was a Fellow of the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies, New York where he was an editor of the journal Oppositions and Editorial Director of Skyline. His books include The Writing of the Walls: Theory and Design in the Late Enlightenment;the prize-winning Claude-Nicolas Ledoux. Architecture and Society in the Ancien Regime; The Architecural Uncanny. Essays in the Modern Unhomely; Warped Space: Art, Architecture, and Anxiety in Modern Culture, and Histories of the Recent Present. The Invention of Modernism forthcoming from MIT Press in June, 2008. He is a Fellow of the National Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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