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Herbert Muschamp. - Review - book review
ArtForum, Dec, 2000
It's fashionable now to insist that there is no such thing as an architectural avant-garde. Anthony Vidler's Warped Space: Art, Architecture, and Anxiety in Modem Culture (MIT Press) should convince you otherwise. It helps explain why many of us watch every move made by a group of architects and designers that includes Frank Gehry, Rem Koolhaas, Philippe Starck, Ettore Sottsass, Eric Owen Moss, Thom Mayne, Elizabeth Diller and Ricardo Scofidio, and Wolf Prix. Only a few of these figures are dealt with here in depth. Vidler has analyzed projects by others in a previous volume, The Architectural Uncanny. Both books lay down a foundation for understanding the work of contemporary designers who are remapping the boundaries between subjective perception and objective reality, brilliantly illustrating the idea that creativity creates its own history.
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Herbert Muschamp is chief architecture critic for the New York Times and a contributing editor of Artforum.
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