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26
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13/100Critics
40/100Scholars
Author:
Charlotte Van den Broeck, David McKay
Publisher:
Other Press
Date:
October 11, 2022
Charlotte Van den Broeck goes in search of buildings that were fatal to their architectsâarchitects who either killed themselves or are rumored to have done so. They range across time and space from a church with a twisted spire in 17th-century France to a theater that collapsed mid-performance in 1920s Washington, DC, and an eerily sinking swimming pool in the author's hometown. Drawing on a vast range of material, from Hegel and Darwin to art history, stories from her own life, and popular culture, Van den Broeck brings patterns into focus as she asks, What is that strange, life-or-death connection between a creation and its creator?
What The Reviewers Say
Beguiling.
Van den Broeck spent three years visiting 13 different 'sites of failure'.
Nearly half the stories Van den Broeck uncovers similarly dissolve away. The death in question happened later, or as a consequence of bereavement, or for reasons that cannot truly be pieced together (little is said here about mental ill-health or early life adversity).
A lively, deeply engrossing exploration into the nature of architectural creation.
