by Joshua Comaroff and Ong Ker-Shing
- Author(s)
- Joshua Comaroff, Ong Ker-Shing
- Publisher, year
- San Fransisco e.a. : ORO editions, 2013
- Scope
- 228 p., illustrated, 18 cm.
- ISBN
- 9781935935902
This book looks at the idea of horror and its analogues in architecture. In these, normal compositions become strange: extra limbs appear, holes open where they should not, individual objects are doubled or split or perversely occupied. Horror in Architecture may be read as a history, as an alternative to the classic canon of good and proper architectures, or as a sly manifesto for a new approach to the design of the built environment--one that encourages a playful subversion of conventions. Through an investigation that spans architecture, art, and literature, this study attempts to shed light on horror through its shifting forms and meanings--and to identify a creeping unease that lingers at the very center of the modern project.
- Location
- Architecture and Discomfort
- Extra themes
- Architecture and Art, Body and Architecture, Body and Space, Residents and the built environment ;
- Remarks
- Incl. Bibliographical References
