Bold Ventures

Author

Charlotte Van den Broeck

Original Work

Hazardous Undertakings

Translator

David McKay

Language

English

Year

2022

Publisher

Other Press

Country

United States

Pages

304

ISBN

9781635423174

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In thirteen fascinating chapters, Charlotte Van den Broeck goes in search of buildings that were fatal to their architects—architects 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 seventeenth-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, s— Google Books