LAIR: Radical Homes and Hideouts of Movie Villains

LAIR: Radical Homes and Hideouts of Movie Villains

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A feature article on architect Chad Oppenheim's coffee-table book LAIR, which examines fifteen iconic film villain residences from a serious architectural perspective. The piece explores why modernism in cinema is so consistently coded as morally suspect — exposed concrete, glass walls, asymmetric forms — and includes a substantial interview with …