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The vastly overscaled elements, lineaments and sculptures of a seemingly infinite house form the backdrop of Susanna Clarke's 2020 novel Piranesi. Head of Teaching and Learning at the Architectural Association, Mark Morris draws on his research into architectural models, paracosms and the representation of buildings in fiction, filtering this through the lens of an encyclopaedic knowledge of architectural history to investigate the book's narrative arc, its ghostly visitations and its beautiful if not overbearing architectural mise en scène.

The contemporary world is so dependent on the virtual, with its constantly morphing and invisibly magical potentialities, that it is somewhat paradoxical that the speculative, explorative aspect of architectural drawing is so undervalued in this context. The profession's computerised quick-fix, feed-me, satisfy-me normative mentality has limited truck with the intangible. Peter J Baldwin writes an ode to the phantasmagorical and the ephemeral, citing it as a useful tool to enhance and liberate the creative design mind. Allied with tactics of re-reading and post-rationalisation, he constructs a spectral ‘machine’ for making work.

Strangely, the palimpsest of human occupation is often far less visible in the city than it is in wilder spaces. Artist, architect, researcher and educator Kirsty Badenoch describes an exploratory expedition to draw out these ghosts within the rugged landscapes of the Scottish Highlands, and a subsequent exhibition of the work through diary entries and photographic forms. The work itself is made through transcriptive collaborations with the volatile climate and flora and fauna of the site, creating a tale of palimpsestuous relationships that dislocate the artistic self as nature leads the dance, or at the very least calls the tune.

An empty granary in Iowa proves to be an experimental laboratory for immersive performative experiences and the manifestation of ghostly apparitions and ideas. The derelict building is porous and permeable, exhibiting a certain uncanniness through the shifting register of haunting vicissitudes which can be projected on, cross-pollinated with, visually explored, touched, heard and marvelled at. Artist and designer Oliver G Goché and architect Peter P Goché take us through some of these ethereal vistas and environments.

Shadows bring a sense of animated vitality to any building, and their representations on drawings add a sense of depth and believability to that which is being illustrated. Nat Chard, Professor of Experimental Architecture at University College London (UCL), has a longstanding interest in movement, optics, photography and the intangible spaces in between them. His Institute of Paradoxical Shadows cleaves the shadow from its material datum, leaving it hanging, a suspended spectral entity, encountered through a séance-like trance of cognitive confusion.

Straddling the fine line between architecture and art, London- based architects ritchie*studio have designed an Invisible Bridge and a Ghost Barn on a private, historic and protected estate in Hampshire, Southeast England. These delicate propositions juggle presence and absence informed by the site's history, by poetry, Charles Darwin, local flint and an intelligent and thoughtful client. Ian Ritchie writes about the concepts for these two interventions and their associated inspirational narratives.

Memorials operate on many semiotic and mnemonic levels, and are often created at an architectural scale constituted as clusters of artistically choreographed and architectonically situated signs and symbols. Guest- Editor of this 2 Peter J Baldwin explores the sculptural and drawn work of Royal Academician Michael Sandle and discusses the artist's multilayered and multiscaled oeuvre that bristles with haunted, painful pasts – lest we forget!