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Horror in architecture (Revised and updated edition)

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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.

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1517914841 / 9781517914844
Paperback / softback
720
06/02/2024
United States
English
264 pages : illustrations (black and white)
23 cm
Previous edition: Novato: ORO Editions, 2013.