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Title: Warped Space: Art, Architecture, and Anxiety in Modern Culture
by Anthony Vidler
ISBN: 0-262-72041-8
Publisher: The MIT Press
Pub. Date: 07 March, 2002
Format: Paperback
Volumes: 1
List Price(USD): $21.00
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Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (2 reviews)

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Rating: 5
Summary: abnormal psychology
Comment: As the title indicates, Vidler's recent publication guides us to see the underlying forces that caused warping and irregularity in contemporary architecture. Beginning with defining various conceptions of 'phobias', Vidler navigates us into the realm of abnormal psychology. Critical theorists, such as Georg Simmel and Walter Benjamin, are also introduced to interweave the ideas of 'estrangement' and 'flaneur(metropolitan nomad wandering unconsciously)'. In so doing, he allows readers to understand underlying mindset behind the buildings of Libeskind, Himmelblau, and Eric Owen Moss.

Rating: 4
Summary: timely assessment
Comment: This is among the books that has given me a wholistic view of the design field- combining aspects of culture and society at the subliminal framework of understanding. It is a good read and very objective in its approach. I personally enjoy criticism and have read books by Victor Margolin and this one analyses the merits and demerits of a field that draws influences and in turn influences a wider spectrum of issues. It is interesting to perceive the manner in which the book uses a synchronic approach to arrive at a very comprehensive analysis of the current day status. For a young designer this book gives a lot of thought to treating design as a part of a larger framework. It forces one to think on larger issues that can be solved through design.

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