When John Muir, a wilderness mystic and founder of the Sierra Club, wrote, “When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe,” he was reflecting on his profound relationship with California’s pristine alpine wilderness. But Erik Davis posits something further. In his kaleidoscopic history of spiritual California, The Visionary State, Davis proposes that Muir was also making room for an innovative, new “rootless tradition.” California dreaming, it seems, has it own dream logic.

Winifred Gallagher's astute new book, House Thinking: A Room-by-Room Look at How We Live will make you rethink just about every space in your house, and teach you why some areas work, and some don't. Moreover, it will explain what to do about it (and it isn't as hard as you might think).

According to the overview for Haunt, an installation by London’s noted architectural firm Haque, para-psychologists have deduced several “empirical” environmental characteristics of haunted spaces: infrasound (frequencies below the threshold of hearing), fluctuations in humidity, fluctuations in temperature, air movement, electromagnetic fields. Herewith, a haunted space is created and invoked, what Haque dubs an non-visual architecture, by simulating (or creating?) the atmospheric conditions that commonly accompany these experiences.