Horror in Architecture (2013, first edition)

A study of how architectural anomalies, "monstrosities," and grotesque forms challenge conventional design norms

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First edition. first printing. Paperback. 18 × 11cm, 225pp.

This book looks at the idea of horror and its analogues in architecture. In these, normal compositions become strange: extra limbs appear, holes open where they should not, individual objects are doubled or split or perversely occupied. Horrifying buildings re-imagine the possibilities of architectural language, shifting from 'natural' norms to other, more rarefied and exciting options. They define an expanded aesthetic field that marries the beautiful to the distorted, the awkward, the manifold, and the indeterminate.

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 centre of the modern project.

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Very good condition, with a little light bumping to the covers.

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