2024-12-03T13:20:21-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/150387425/beloved-architectural-historian-scholar-and-academic-anthony-vidler-passes-away-at-82 Josh Niland 2023-10-20T15:16:00-04:00 >2023-10-22T00:34:15-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/7f/7f5c0fd505536a9d1d881d457f691d4f.jpeg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p><a href="https://archinect.com/princetonsoa" target="_blank">Princeton University</a> has shared news of the passing of beloved longtime School of Architecture faculty member Anthony Vidler yesterday, October 20th, after a short battle with illness. He was 82.</p> <p>Vidler was known throughout academia as a formative mentor and thought leader who shaped the development of architecture from within the apparatus of higher education, inspiring thousands of students into both teaching and professional practice during his over 50-year career.</p> <p>Born in England, Vidler studied at the <a href="https://archinect.com/cambridge" target="_blank">University of Cambridge</a> and <a href="https://archinect.com/schools/cover/343/delft-university-of-technology" target="_blank">Delft University of Technology</a> before coming to the United States to teach as Princeton's William R. Kenan Jr. Chair of Architecture. It was there, in 1965, that he became the SoA&rsquo;s first-ever History and Theory Ph.D. program director, steering it for a period of 30 years before he departed to serve as the Dean of&nbsp;<a href="https://archinect.com/schools/cover/1544387/cornell-university" target="_blank">Cornell University's College of Art, Architecture and Planning</a>. He would later go on to be appointed Dean of&nbsp;<a href="https://archinect.com/schools/cover/697/the-cooper-union" target="_blank">The Cooper Union Irwin S. Chanin...</a></p>