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About this book
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
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- About the Guest-Editors
- Introduction: I Ain’t Afraid Of No Ghosts
- Syncopated Chronologies: Architectural Conservation and Spectral Documentation
- Imaging Uncertainty: Layers of Time and Meaning in a Sacred Space
- Haunted Houses: Architecture and Large Language Models
- Phantoms of a Five-Day Forest
- Designing Absence: The Invisible Bridge and the Ghost Barn
- Solid Shadows: Presencing Memory, Manifesting Memorial
- Ghost Horizons: Scaffold and Syntax
- Chasing Paradoxical Shadows
- Diaphanous Bodies: A Hauntology of the Mediating Image
- All Visualisations Have Crooked Tales/Tails
- A Tailored Reality: Inside In Here
- Digital Ectoplasm and the Infinite Architecture of the Fulldome
- Piranesi: An Unsettling World of Architecture
- Hard Spirits: Architectural Apparitions in Hayao Miyazaki’s Spirited Away
- From Another Perspective: Beyond the Realms of Death
- Contributors
- What is Architectural Design?
- ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN
- FORTHCOMING AD TITLES
- EULA
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