Blobs. Doppelgangers. Giants. Puppets. Incontinent objects.
Mullets. Army of Darkness. All and much more are covered in Horror
in Architecture: The Reanimated Edition by Joshua Comaroff
and Ong Ker-Shing.
The book examines how horror genre tropes familiar from books and cinema also
appear in architecture, and in so doing, how we can find another way to
understand and criticize our built environment, using the language of mass culture
in place of “weaponized jargon.” Comaroff is the guest of honor on episode 76
of Unfrozen.
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Intro/Outro: “Scare Me,” by Deadbolt
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Discussed:
Harvard Graduate
School of Design under Rem Koolhaas
Bigness, or
the Problem of Large, by Rem Koolhaas
Centre
Pompidou = Terry Gilliam’s Brazil
Xintiandi,
Shanghai
The Architectural
Uncanny, by Anthony Vidler
Built
Beautiful, with narration by … Martha Stewart
Mullets
Ordos
100, Inner Mongolia
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House House, by
Johnston Marklee
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Ai
Weiwei
H.R. Giger
-> Zaha Hadid -> Thomas Heatherwick->
Santiago Calatrava
Zeitz
MOCAA, Cape Town
Hannover
Pavilion at Expo 2000 by MVRDV = Arby’s Breakfast Sandwich
Caltrans
Building, Los Angeles, Morphosis
League
of Extraordinary Gentlemen series, by Alan Moore
House
of Leaves, by Mark Danielewski
The Master and
Margarita, by Mikhail Bulgakov
Saddam Hussein’s Frank Frazetta-esque fantasy
interior paintings
Idi Amin’s
Chinese Garden
Great Basilica,
Yamoussukro, Ivory Coast (110% the size of St. Peters)
Anti-Oedipus,
by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari
The
Day of the Beast and Philip Johnson’s Gate of Europe, Madrid
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