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. -- -- Intro/Outro: “Scare Me,” by Deadbolt -- Discussed: Immanuel Kant Edmund Burke 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 Jan Gehl The Architectural Uncanny, by Anthony Vidler Built Beautiful, with narration by … Martha Stewart Mullets Army of Darkness Twins are in Doppelgangers Ordos 100, Inner Mongolia - House House, by Johnston Marklee - Gaston Bachelard - Preston Scott Cohen - Ai Weiwei H.R. Giger -> Zaha Hadid -> Thomas Heatherwick-> Santiago Calatrava Zeitz MOCAA, Cape Town Gordon Matta-Clark Jan Kaplicky / Future Systems Frank Gehry Francois Roche Parc de la Villette American Psycho Hannover Pavilion at Expo 2000 by MVRDV = Arby’s Breakfast Sandwich Toshiko Mori Caltrans Building, Los Angeles, Morphosis Daniel Libeskind 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
