We contemplate our lives as we move through corridors, entrances, and passages, yet these spaces are not included in architectural histories or guides. These spaces are often overlooked and undervalued, considered as unsightly parts of a building's infrastructure rather than as architecture.

This book is the first definitive history of the corridor, from its roots in country houses and utopian communities in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, through reformist Victorian prisons, hospitals, and asylums, to the "corridors of power," bureaucratic labyrinths, and twentieth-century housing. With a wide range of sources, from architectural history to literature, film, and television, the book explores how the corridor transformed from ideal in utopian space to a place of anxiety: the archetype of the nightmare experience.

Pages: 240, Dimensions: 17.1x17.1cm