turriphilia
An (often manic) affection for, love of, or attraction (in any form) towards towers or similarly shaped or designed objects.
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Whether these writers share any characteristics that might account for their common turriphilia, and whether by moving into towers they reified an image already prevalent in their works or, alternatively, by writing about towers internalized the reality of their lives—these are some of the questions to be addressed in the following pages.
The urge or desire to build towers.
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The Guggenheim functions as an American expression of modern turriphilia that serves as both refuge from, and critique of, modern urban space […].
Where it comes from
Coined by Theodore Ziolkowski in 1998. From Latin turris (“tower”), from Ancient Greek τύρρις (túrrhis) + -philia, from Ancient Greek φιλία (philía, “love, affection”).
Adapted from the Wiktionary entry turriphilia (CC BY-SA 4.0).