Blobs. Doppelgangers. Giants. Puppets. Incontinent objects.Mullets. Army of Darkness. All and much more are covered in Horrorin Architecture: The Reanimated Edition by Joshua Comaroffand Ong Ker-Shing.The book examines how horror genre tropes familiar from books and cinema alsoappear in architecture, and in so doing, how we can find another way tounderstand and criticize our built environment, using the language of mass culturein place of “weaponized jargon.” Comaroff is the guest of honor on episode 76of Unfrozen.
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Intro/Outro: “Scare Me,” by Deadbolt
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Discussed:
Harvard GraduateSchool of Design under Rem Koolhaas
Bigness, orthe Problem of Large, by Rem Koolhaas
CentrePompidou = Terry Gilliam’s Brazil
Xintiandi,Shanghai
The ArchitecturalUncanny, by Anthony Vidler
BuiltBeautiful, with narration by … Martha Stewart
Mullets
Ordos100, Inner Mongolia
- House House, byJohnston Marklee
- AiWeiwei
H.R. Giger-> Zaha Hadid -> Thomas Heatherwick->Santiago Calatrava
ZeitzMOCAA, Cape Town
HannoverPavilion at Expo 2000 by MVRDV = Arby’s Breakfast Sandwich
CaltransBuilding, Los Angeles, Morphosis
Leagueof Extraordinary Gentlemen series, by Alan Moore
Houseof Leaves, by Mark Danielewski
The Master andMargarita, by Mikhail Bulgakov
Saddam Hussein’s Frank Frazetta-esque fantasyinterior paintings
Idi Amin’sChinese Garden
Great Basilica,Yamoussukro, Ivory Coast (110% the size of St. Peters)
Anti-Oedipus,by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari
TheDay of the Beast and Philip Johnson’s Gate of Europe, Madrid
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