"Deeply researched, packed with detail, and bold in scope and imagination, this intriguing book is ultimately about temporality and culture. It brings an impressive array of sources to bear on the future-present and the future-past as key categories of political and aesthetic critique."—Achille Mbembe, philosopher, author of On the Postcolony

"This densely packed book busts the genre of horror wide open, substituting slow-building dread with breakneck mesmerism. Like Walter Benjamin’s magical, if precarious, balance of opposites, Joshua Comaroff and Ong Ker-Shing lay bare horror’s grasp over almost all aspects of architectural production and representation while nevertheless leaving us with the glimmer of a possible way forward."—Sarah M. Whiting, Harvard Graduate School of Design

"This book is wise, challenging, and wonderful in its shameless celebration of the sublime qualities of horror. To see this subject discussed in relation to architecture is truly a discovery."—Sjón, author of The Blue Fox

 

"A novel framework, providing dense, sometimes hilarious, always interesting, connections between art, architecture, film, and theory."—ArchitectureNow

"With its synthesis of theories and philosophies, Horror in Architecture will be useful across disciplines and curricula, creating a dialogue that breaks down compartmentalized, scholarly walls and opens a space to evaluate the intersectional crossbeams that shelter and cage us."—Los Angeles Review of Books

"The book is full of fascinating ideas, theses, and analyses. It considers architecture in unconventional ways, and Comaroff and Ker-Shing exhibit a consistent awareness of the wider context of relevant cultural and artistic forms."—Extrapolation