Horror in Architecture

In Horror in Architecture, normal compositions become strange: extra limbs appear, holes open where they should not, individual objects are doubled or split or perversely occupied. These buildings reimagine 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 limns horror through its shifting forms and identifies a creeping unease that lingers at the very center of the modern project.