Why Architecture Matters by Paul Goldberger

Author:Paul Goldberger
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2009-08-14T16:00:00+00:00

Edward Hopper, Early Sunday Morning

Buildings enter our memories as characters in films; they are characters in novels, and they even play a role in cartoons. Would Charles Addams’s characters have felt quite the same if they had lived in a Cape Cod cottage? Addams knew that an ornate, Second Empire mansion, at once ramshackle and grandiose, could seem menacing, even terrifying. He took advantage of these associations and made them stronger still, so that now, we connect such houses in memory with his macabre characters. When you hear the phrase “haunted house,” you picture a house like that, not a suburban split-level.

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