Caroline O' Donnell

In the introduction to Spirits, O'Donnell and her fellow editors assert the issue "examines a range of spirits haunting architecture today." Colin Rowe, who taught at Cornell for much of his life, must be one of those spirits, for the editors find phantoms in his writings, occupying the realm between buildings and the interaction or people "reading" them. Heady stuff but a great starting point for a mélange of essays on the theme of spirits, ranging from data and the Anthropocene, to Louis Sullivan and meloncholia in cities, to haunted houses and the uncanny in Gothic romance novels. And what would a journal called Spirits be without an essay on The Shining's Overlook Hotel?… (mere)