Horror in Architecture - Joshua Comaroff and Ong Ker-Shing

Horror in Architecture: The Reanimated Edition by Joshua Comaroff and Ong Ker-Shing / 264-page paperback, 7 x 9 inches, with 142 b/w images / ISBN 9781517914844 *** 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 natu