Horror in Architecture: The Reanimated Edition
Comaroff, Joshua; Ker-Shing, Ong
ISBN 10: 1517914841 ISBN 13: 9781517914844
Published by Univ Of Minnesota Press, 2024
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A new edition of this extensive visual analysis of horror tropes and their architectural analogues
Horror in Architecture presents an unflinching look at how horror genre tropes manifest in the built environment. Spanning the realms of art, design, literature, and film, this newly revised and expanded edition compiles examples from all areas of popular culture to form a visual anthology of the architectural uncanny.
Rooted in the Romantic and Gothic treatment of horror as a serious aesthetic category, Horror in Architecture establishes incisive links between contemporary horror media and its parallel traits found in various architectural designs. Through chapters dedicated to distorted and monstrous buildings, abandoned spaces, extremes of scale, and other structural peculiarities, and featuring new essays on insurgent natures, blobs, and architectural puppets, this volume brings together diverse architectural anomalies and shows how their unsettling effects deepen our fascination with the unreal.
Intended for both horror fans and students of visual culture, Horror in Architecture turns a unique lens on the relationship between the human body and the artificial landscapes it inhabits. Extensively illustrated with photographs, film stills, and diagrams, this book retrieves horror from the cultural fringes and demonstrates how its attributes permeate the modern condition and the material world.
About the Author:
Joshua Comaroff is assistant professor in the urban studies program at Yale-NUS College in Singapore.
Ong Ker-Shing is associate professor in practice in the Department of Architecture at National University of Singapore.
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Bibliographic Details
Title: Horror in Architecture: The Reanimated ...
Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press
Publication Date: 2024
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: New