Archinect - News 2024-11-24T00:17:30-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/150013611/the-corner-of-lovecraft-and-ballard The Corner of Lovecraft and Ballard Places Journal 2017-06-20T17:22:00-04:00 >2017-06-20T17:23:29-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/pe/peufdwfng415913u.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>For Lovecraft, the ubiquitous angle between two walls is a dark gateway to the screaming abyss of the outer cosmos; for Ballard, it&rsquo;s an entry point to our own anxious psyche.</p></em><br /><br /><p><em></em>H.P. Lovecraft and J.G. Ballard both put architecture at the heart of their fiction, and both made the humble corner into a place of nightmares. Will Wiles delves into the malign interiors of their imagined worlds and&nbsp;the secret history of the spaces where walls meet.&nbsp;</p> <p><em></em></p> https://archinect.com/news/article/149985975/within-and-without-architecture Within and Without Architecture Places Journal 2017-01-11T17:36:00-05:00 >2017-01-15T15:23:46-05:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/mv/mvl20dpohdozwrl5.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>The imaginative possibilities of miniature things lie not in their being shrunken versions of a larger thing. The world of the miniature opens to reveal a secret life.</p></em><br /><br /><p>Sometimes you encounter a thing that is not &ldquo;properly&rdquo; architectural, but which yet has something profound to say about the discipline. In her latest article for <em>Places</em>, columnist Naomi Stead is drawn by a cartoon from&nbsp;<em>The New Yorker&nbsp;</em>to consider the relationships between the miniature, the uncanny, and mise en abyme in architecture.&nbsp;</p> https://archinect.com/news/article/21744523/moravia-s-architectural-landscape Moravia's architectural landscape Nam Henderson 2011-09-26T00:49:00-04:00 >2011-09-26T10:30:10-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/ec/eciiqkglqalorqo8.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>But what most attracted me was the architectural landscape of South Moravia &mdash; its surprising profusion of castles and chateaus, built between the 12th and the 19th centuries, many of them designated by Unesco as sites of cultural significance.</p></em><br /><br /><p> Evan Rail visits the region of&nbsp;Moravia the lesser known cousin of Bohemia, in the Czech Republic. Along the way he encounters the 19th century architectural follies of the&nbsp;Liechtenstein family, discovers&nbsp;Moravia&rsquo;s Baroque castles and manages to reference&nbsp;the philosopher Gaston Bachelard.</p>