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Alien Ossuary: The HR Giger Museum Bar
Author(s) -
Spiller Neil
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
architectural design
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.128
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 1554-2769
pISSN - 0003-8504
DOI - 10.1002/ad.2277
Subject(s) - alien , bar (unit) , art history , art , work (physics) , character (mathematics) , engineering , law , political science , geography , mechanical engineering , geometry , mathematics , politics , citizenship , meteorology
The synthesis of mechanical ideas and forms with the organic has long been central to the Surrealist project. Famed for his work on the 1979 film Alien , Swiss artist Hans Ruedi Giger epitomises this approach – as supremely demonstrated by his biomechanoid Museum Bar in Gruyéres, Switzerland. Guest‐Editor Neil Spiller takes us on a Surrealist‐inspired journey around it.