Architecture and Evil: Imagined Landscapes

Robert W. Butler

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Architecture and Evil: Imagined Landscapes

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Pages:: 33–40

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9781848883307_005

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This chapter examines some ways in which architecture has been used to reflect ideas about evil. Architectural forms reflect the world that evil is perceived to inhabit. By comparing early medieval descriptions of hell with Albert Speer’s designs for a new Nazi Berlin, we can come to a better understanding of what each age thought about evil and how it was reflected in architectural design. It becomes clear that the nature of evil has shifted, from a force outside of humanity to one within.

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I Want to Do Bad Things: Modern Interpretations of Evil

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Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 01 Jan 2014

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  - Ethics & Moral Philosophy
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