Ceilings and dreams : the architecture of levity / edited by Paul Emmons, Federica Goffi and Jodi La Coe.
Contributor(s): Emmons, Paul [editor.] | Goffi, Federica [editor.] | La Coe, Jodi [editor.].
Publisher: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, ©2020Description: 252 p : illustrations (black and white), plan ; 26 cm.Content type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781138479357; 1138479357; 9781138479388; 1138479381.Subject(s): Ceilings | Architecture -- Psychological aspects | Architecture -- Psychological aspects | CeilingsGenre/Form: Print books.| Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| On Shelf | NA2950 .C39 2020 (Browse shelf) | Available | AU00000000018192 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
From below upwards : an introduction to Ceilings and dreams / Paul Emmons -- Reverie. Cloud nine : a lover's guide / Don Kunze ; From the Igluvigaq to the Sila : ceilings in the Inuit imagination / Émélie Desrochers-Turgeon ; Hagia Sophia's dome : a mythopoeic dreamspace / Tugce Akinci ; Dreaming the body : Filarete's disegno / Berrin Terim ; Eleven angels in the ceiling of flames : architectural speculations in the Ducal Library of Urbino / Tracey Eve Winton ; Nightmares of broken ceilings : the shell, the god and the mold / Karima Benbih -- Suspense. Perplexing ceiling structures : dreaming the details of the broken beam in Chongming Temple / Qi Zhu ; The plafond as a place of transmutation : architecture of levity in the eighteenth century / Louise Pelletier ; Storywork : Henry Chapman Mercer's cast-in-place tile vaults and the invention of practice / Luc Phinney ; Ceilings of infinite extension : Konrad Wachsmann's mediating "overhead" / Ezgi İşbilen ; Under-standing counter-ceilings : the multiverse of gazing and listening in the ambiances by Carlo Scarpa and Luigi Nono / Federica Goffi ; Cracked but not broken : material and culture of the glass ceiling / Aki Ishida -- Inversion. The nightmare of condensation / Jonathan Foote and Carolina Dayer ; Dreaming the fourth dimension : László Moholy-Nagy's inversions / Jodi La Coe ; Life, superceiling / Kieran Connolly ; Three ghosts and a baldachin : boredom and (day)dreaming in two drawings by Saul Steinberg / Andreea Mihalache ; A theater of architectural monsters / Sam Ridgway ; The architect inside out : reading the barrel-vaulted ceiling of Balkrishna Doshi's studio - Sangath / Pallavi Swaranjali ; Looking down to look up / Marcia F. Feuerstein.