Ghost Stories

Architecture and the Intangible
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-1-394-18508-5
Verlag: Wiley

Buch, Englisch, 144 Seiten, Format (B × H): 213 mm x 274 mm, Gewicht: 576 g

It is not without irony that in an age characterised by the dissolution of certainty – a consequence of digital dematerialisation and the catastrophic destabilisation of our social institutions and natural world – architecture, for so long the repository for our myths and the vessel for our intangible narratives and rituals, has been stripped bare. Increasingly preoccupied with the physical, material and measurable, architecture has forfeited its original purpose as a mediating link between the tacit and the tangible. Drawing on the current resurgence and our enduring cultural fascination with the ethereal and uncanny, this AD frames the spectral as a deconstructive gesture that undermines the fixedness and certainties of binary logics, a means to develop new practices and positions from which to address our contemporary uncertainties. Gathering a body of work that explores and speculates on architecture’s long romance with the incorporeal, the issue is intended as a catalyst through which latency, contingency and indeterminacy, inherent characteristics of the architectural condition, can once more be valued, cultivated and nurtured.

Contributors: Kirsty Badenoch; Michael Chapman;Nat Chard;Oliver G Goche and Peter P Goché; Perry Kulper; Ifigeneia Liangi and Daniel Dream; Eva Menuhin; Mark Morris; Mike Phillips; Ian Ritchie; Chris Speed, and Cameron Stebbing

Featured architects and designers: Captivate: Spatial Modelling Research Group, Daniel Libeskind, Night Kitchen Studio, Michael Sandle, and Ritchie Studio

Autoren/Hrsg.

Baldwin, Peter J

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Architektur: Allgemeines
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Architekturtheorie
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Geschichte der Architektur, Baugeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

About the Guest-Editor 5
Peter J Baldwin

Introduction 6

I Ain’t Afraid Of No Ghosts …
Peter J Baldwin

Syncopated Chronologies 16

Architectural Conservation and Spectral Documentation
Cameron Stebbing

Imaging Uncertainty 26

Layers of Time and Meaning in a Sacred Space
Eva Menuhin

Haunted Houses 34

Architecture and Large Language Models
Chris Speed

Phantoms of a Five-Day Forest 40
Kirsty Badenoch

Designing Absence 48

The Invisible Bridge and the Ghost Barn
Ian Ritchie

Solid Shadows 58

Presencing Memory, Manifesting Memorial
Peter J Baldwin

Ghost Horizons 64

Scaffold and Syntax
Oliver G Goché and Peter P Goché

Chasing Paradoxical Shadows 74
Nat Chard

Diaphanous Bodies 84

A Hauntology of the Mediating Image
Peter J Baldwin

All Visualisations Have Crooked Tales/Tails 92
Perry Kulper

A Tailored Reality 102

Inside In Here
Ifigeneia Liangi and Daniel Dream

Digital Ectoplasm and the Infinite Architecture of the Fulldome 110
Mike Phillips

Piranesi 118

An Unsettling World of Architecture
Mark Morris

Hard Spirits 126

Architectural Apparitions in Hayao Miyazaki’s Spirited Away
Michael Chapman

From Another Perspective 134

Beyond the Realms of Death
Neil Spiller

‘Evident throughout human history, the relationship between architecture and the immaterial has long been established’
— Peter J Baldwin

Contributors 142

Über Autor(innen)

Peter J Baldwin is a registered and chartered Architect and M Arch Programme Leader at the Lincoln's School of Architecture and the Built Environment. Peter's research explores the role of the drawing as an environment for speculation and the generative potential of non-traditional modes of architectural representation. Peter has lectured and taught in schools of architecture across the UK and his work has been published and exhibited internationally.