Featured projects: Cantina “Il Carnasciale”, Valdarno, Italy Residential Building, Zug, Switzerland Auditorium Schlossgut Beilstein, Hohenbeilstein, Germany Plantahof Auditorium, Landquart, Switzerland Entrance to the Parliament Building, Chur, Switzerland Villa Além, Alentejo, Portugal San Felipe Tower, Lima, Peru Laax House, Laax, Switzerland La Mas, Pacific Ocean, Peru Schau...(展开全部)

Markus Breitschmid is an internationally active architecture theorist and author. He is a professor of architecture at Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University (Virginia Tech).

In 1961, Sarah M. Broom's mother Ivory Mae bought a shotgun house in the then-promising neighborhood of New Orleans East and built her world inside of it. It was the height of the Space Race and the neighborhood was home to a major NASA plant--the postwar optimism seemed assured. Widowed, Ivory Mae remarried Sarah's father Simon Broom; their combined family would eventually num...(展开全部)

In 1961, Sarah M. Broom's mother Ivory Mae bought a shotgun house in the then-promising neighborhood of New Orleans East and built her world inside of it. It was the height of the Space Race and the neighborhood was home to a major NASA plant--the postwar optimism seemed assured. Widowed, Ivory Mae remarried Sarah's father Simon Broom; their combined family would eventually num...(展开全部)

“Much work and little wine,” the doctor advised. For a short time, it seemed that in this way Theodor could return to a normal life. But what the doctor ignored was that behind the image that afflicted his patient lay a terrible story. The twin, ‘the mirror’, the gypsy: all these elements of the Gothic imagination combine to build the true story of the abandoned house.

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