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The Writing of the Walls. Architectural Theory in the Late Enlightenment (Princeton: Princeton Architectural Press, 1987). Paperback, 1990. •
Ledoux (Paris: Editions Hazan, 1987). Foreign editions: Berlin, 1989, Tokyo, 1989, Madrid, 1994. •
Claude-Nicolas Ledoux: Architecture and Social Reform at the End of the Ancien Régime (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1990). •
The Architectural Uncanny: Essays in the Modern Unhomely (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1992). • ''L'Espace des Lumières: Architecture et philosophie de Ledoux à Fourier
(Paris: Editions Picard, 1992). Translation and revised edition of The Writing of the Walls
with new introduction and concluding chapter, 1992. Spanish edition: El espacio de la Ilustración. La teoria arquitectónica en Francia a finales del siglo XVIII'', trans. Jorge Sainz (Madrid: Alianza Editorial, 1997). •
Antoine Grumbach (Paris: Centre Georges Pompidou, 1996). •
Warped Space: Art, Architecture, and Anxiety in Modern Culture (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2000). •
Claude-Nicolas Ledoux (Paris: Hazan, 2005). •
Claude-Nicolas Ledoux: Architecture and Utopia in the Age of the French Revolution (Basel: Birkhäuser, 2006). •
Histories of the Immediate Present. Inventing Architectural Modernism (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2008). •
Architecture Between Spectacle and Use, ed. Anthony Vidler, Clark Studies in the Visual Arts (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2008), “Introduction,” pp.vii-xiii; “Architecture's Expanded Field,” pp. 143–154. •
James Frazer Stirling: Notes from the Archive (New Haven and London: The Yale Center for British Art and Yale University Press; Montreal:
Canadian Centre for Architecture, 2010). •
The Scenes of the Street and Other Essays (New York: The Monacelli Press, 2011). == Awards ==