Goth: Designing Darkness collecting Amalie Smith’s bracing hybrid of

Amalie Smith’s bracing hybrid of a novel bares the aching interwovenness of art and life

architectural training to why ‘the lack of ornament is a sign of intellectual power’

showing how space and architecture trigger contradiction and contest

is a reckoning and a force

Chaucerian in its breadth and humor

Goth: Designing Darkness collecting Amalie Smith’s bracing hybrid ofThe Enlightenment heralded reason and progress, yet also spawned a world organised along increasingly rigid lines of technological development and economic gain. In the late 18th century, this disenchantment with the world triggered a reaction, a counter movement and antidote to notions of progress, clarity, and globalisation. The goth subculture as we know it today was born in the 1980s, but its roots are much older. It is a lifestyle steeped in an