Bold ventures : thirteen tales of architectural tragedy
Broeck, Charlotte Van den, 1991-2022
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In 'Bold Ventures', Belgian poet Charlotte Van den Broeck goes in search of buildings that were fatal for their architects - architects who either killed themselves or are rumoured to have done so. The buildings range across time and space - from a church with a twisted spire built in 17th-century France to a theatre that collapsed mid-performance in 1920s Washington, DC., and an eerily sinking swimming pool in her hometown of Turnhout. Drawing on a vast range of material, from Hegel and Charles Darwin to art history, stories from her own life and popular culture, patterns gradually come into focus, as Van den Broeck asks: what is that strange life-or-death connection between a creation and its creator?
Main title:
Bold ventures : thirteen tales of architectural tragedy / Charlotte Van den Broeck ; translated from the Dutch by David McKay.
Author:
Broeck, Charlotte Van den, 1991-, author
Imprint:
London : Chatto & Windus, 2022.
Collation:
viii, 290 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cm
ISBN:
9781784743987 (hbk. :)
Dewey class:
720.922720.922 BROE720.922 BRO
Language:
EnglishDutch
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BRN:
2253709
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