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:

ImmanuelKant

EdmundBurke

Harvard GraduateSchool of Design under Rem Koolhaas

Bigness, orthe Problem of Large, by Rem Koolhaas

CentrePompidou = Terry Gilliam’s Brazil

Xintiandi,Shanghai

Jan Gehl

The ArchitecturalUncanny, by Anthony Vidler

BuiltBeautiful, with narration by … Martha Stewart

Mullets

Army ofDarkness

Twinsare in

Doppelgangers

Ordos100, Inner Mongolia

• House House, byJohnston Marklee

• Gaston Bachelard

• PrestonScott Cohen

• AiWeiwei

H.R. Giger-> Zaha Hadid -> Thomas Heatherwick->Santiago Calatrava

ZeitzMOCAA, Cape Town

GordonMatta-Clark

JanKaplicky / Future Systems

FrankGehry

FrancoisRoche

Parcde la Villette

AmericanPsycho

HannoverPavilion at Expo 2000 by MVRDV = Arby’s Breakfast Sandwich

ToshikoMori

CaltransBuilding, Los Angeles, Morphosis

DanielLibeskind

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