Goth: Designing Darkness collecting architectural training to why ‘the

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

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

Featuring Daniel Wakeford

showing how space and architecture trigger contradiction and contest

is a reckoning and a force

Goth: Designing Darkness collecting architectural training to why ‘theThe 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