MythomaniaS: Crime Scenes & Psycho Case Studies

mythomaniaS is a catalog of case studies in the form of film stills, architectural fragments, stage props, texts, and images culled from the experiments of MindMachineMakingMyths (Lab M4, part of the New Territories architecture studio, Bankgok, Thailand), a collaboration begun in 2012 between Camil...

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Published: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2020
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