Horror in architecture /
Comaroff, Joshua,author.
Ong, Ker-Shing,author.
[Novato, California] : ORO editions,
c2013.
Through an investigation that spans architecture art, and literature, this study attempts to limn horror through its shifting forms and meanings--and to identify a creeping unease that lingers at the very center of the modern project.
Includes bibliographical references.
Sublime horror -- Deviance anatomy -- Horror in architecture -- The redemption of horror -- Doubles & clones -- Exquisite corpse & ungrammatical body -- Partially and mostly dead -- Reiteration and reflexivity -- Incontinent object -- Trojan horse - Homunculism & gigantism -- Solidity & stereotomy -- Distortion and disproportion.
Through an investigation that spans architecture art, and literature, this study attempts to limn horror through its shifting forms and meanings--and to identify a creeping unease that lingers at the very center of the modern project.
Architecture