Beyond the Red Room: “The Architecture of David Lynch” by Richard Martin – Architizer

Have you heard of “the alley behind the marketplace?” It is one of those neglected places tucked behind the mercantile mainstream, plagued with the odor of failure, struggles, nighttime dreads, with a pathway leading to the “palace.” It is the field “behind Vista” in Blue Velvet (1986), a small lane in Inland Empire (2006) and the garbage area behind Winkie’s diner in Mulholland Drive (2001). These are spaces that reveal hidden truths, architectural ones included, to those who, like filmmaker David Lynch, look at the world from an askew angle. In his new book The Architecture of David Lynch (Bloomsbury Academic 2014), author Richard Martin enters this weird coordinate system and takes on the difficult task of bringing structure to the spatial readings of Lynch’s work.

Source: Beyond the Red Room: “The Architecture of David Lynch” by Richard Martin – Architizer