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.
Contents
Preface to the New Edition
Introduction
Doubles and Clones
Exquisite Corpse
Partially and Mostly Dead
Reiteration and Reflexivity
Incontinent Objects
Trojan Horse
Homunculism and Gigantism
Solidity, Mass, Stereotomy
Distortion and Disproportion
Blobs
Puppets
Insurgent Natures
Displacement
Postscript
Notes
Index
ISBN
9781517914844Title
Horror in Architecture: The Reanimated EditionAuthor
Joshua Comaroff and Ong Ker-ShingPublisher
University of Minnesota PressPublication year
2024Binding
PaperbackLanguage
English
