Intro/Outro: “Scare Me,” by Deadbolt

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Discussed:

Immanuel Kant

Edmund Burke

Harvard Graduate School of Design under Rem Koolhaas

Bigness, or the Problem of Large, by Rem Koolhaas

Centre Pompidou = Terry Gilliam’s Brazil

Xintiandi, Shanghai

Jan Gehl

The Architectural Uncanny, by Anthony Vidler

Built Beautiful, with narration by … Martha Stewart

Mullets

Army of Darkness

Twins are in

Doppelgangers

Ordos 100, Inner Mongolia

• House House, by Johnston Marklee
• Gaston Bachelard
• Preston Scott Cohen
• Ai Weiwei

H.R. Giger -> Zaha Hadid -> Thomas Heatherwick-> Santiago Calatrava

Zeitz MOCAA, Cape Town

Gordon Matta-Clark

Jan Kaplicky / Future Systems

Frank Gehry

Francois Roche

Parc de la Villette

American Psycho

Hannover Pavilion at Expo 2000 by MVRDV = Arby’s Breakfast Sandwich

Toshiko Mori

Caltrans Building, Los Angeles, Morphosis

Daniel Libeskind

League of Extraordinary Gentlemen series, by Alan Moore

House of Leaves, by Mark Danielewski

The Master and Margarita, by Mikhail Bulgakov

Saddam Hussein’s Frank Frazetta-esque fantasy interior paintings

Idi Amin’s Chinese Garden

Great Basilica, Yamoussukro, Ivory Coast (110% the size of St. Peters)

Anti-Oedipus, by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari

The Day of the Beast and Philip Johnson’s Gate of Europe, Madrid