Anthony Vidler (1941-2023) was an architectural scholar, historian, critic, and academic. A faculty member of Princeton University’s School of Architecture from 1965 to 1993, Vidler served as the first director of the School’s History and Theory Ph.D. program. From 1993 to 1997, Vidler was Professor and Chair of Art History at UCLA, and then Dean of the College of Art, Architecture and Planning at Cornell University from 1997 to 1998. In 2002, he became Dean of The Cooper Union Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture, a position he held until 2013. His publications include The Writing of the Walls: Architectural Theory in the Late Enlightenment; Claude-Nicolas Ledoux: Architecture and Social Reform at the End of the Ancien Regime; The Architectural Uncanny: Essays in the Modern Unhomely; Warped Space: Architecture and Anxiety in Modern Culture; Histories of the Immediate Present: The Invention of Architectural Modernism; James Frazer Stirling: Notes from the Archive; and The Scenes of the Street and other Essays. In addition to teaching and writing, Vidler was a respected curator, with several significant exhibitions including the permanent exhibition of the work of Claude-Nicolas Ledoux in the Royal Salt Works of Arc-et-Senans in Franche-Comté, France, and “James Stirling, Architect and Teacher,” at the Tate, the Staatsgalerie, the Yale Center for British Art, and the Canadian Center for Architecture.