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Ceilings and Dreams
The Architecture of Levity
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"This erudite and supremely entertaining collection of essays demonstrates historical and present relationships between architecture’s all-important oneiric dimension and the sense of levity motivated by a consideration of ceilings: the vertical dimension of architecture that gives it wings. Imaginary flight, 'winged eros,' is a crucial human gift, our capacity to travel upwards folded with our intimation of transcendence." - Dr. Alberto Pérez-Gómez, Bronfman Professor of Architectural History and Theory, McGill University
"Offering the ceiling as a site of inquiry can seem trivial or even frivolous in the face of so many weighty contemporary issues, but these reflections on the surfaces that hover above our heads provide a thoroughly engaging contribution to a topical philosophy of architecture." - Professor William W. Braham, University of Pennsylvania
"'Ceilings are vertical thresholds extending lived space into dream space and dream space into lived space,' writes Paul Emmons in his evocative introduction to this crucial and dreamy anthology he edited with Federica Goffi and Jodi La Coe. The debasement of ceilings during the 20th century has been one of the banes of my (taller-than-average) existence, and so what could be more necessary than a critical investigation of this state of affairs, both architectural and oneiric?" - Oliver Botar, University of Manitoba School of Art
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Where is the space for dreaming in the twenty-first century? Lofty thoughts, like dreams, are born and live overhead, just as they have been represented in Renaissance paintings and modern cartoons. Ceilings are often repositories of stories, events and otherwise invisible oneiric narratives. Les mer
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Where is the space for dreaming in the twenty-first century? Lofty thoughts, like dreams, are born and live overhead, just as they have been represented in Renaissance paintings and modern cartoons. Ceilings are often repositories of stories, events and otherwise invisible oneiric narratives. Yet environments that inspire innovative thinking are dwindling as our world confronts enormous challenges, and almost all of our thinking, debating and decision-making takes place under endless ceiling grids. Quantitative research establishes that spaces with taller ceilings elicit broader, more creative thoughts. Today, ceilings are usually squat conduits of technology: they have become the blind spot of modern architecture. The twenty essays in this book look across cultures, places and ceilings over time to discover their potential to uplift the human spirit. Not just one building element among many, the ceiling is a key to unlock the architectural imagination.
Ceilings and Dreams aims to correct this blind spot and encourages architects and designers, researchers and students, to look up through writings organized into three expansive categories: reveries, suspensions and inversions. The contributors contemplate the architecture of levity and the potential of the ceiling, once again, as a place for dreaming.
Ceilings and Dreams aims to correct this blind spot and encourages architects and designers, researchers and students, to look up through writings organized into three expansive categories: reveries, suspensions and inversions. The contributors contemplate the architecture of levity and the potential of the ceiling, once again, as a place for dreaming.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Routledge
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 252
- ISBN
- 9781138479388
- Utgivelsesår
- 2019
- Format
- 25 x 17 cm
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"This erudite and supremely entertaining collection of essays demonstrates historical and present relationships between architecture’s all-important oneiric dimension and the sense of levity motivated by a consideration of ceilings: the vertical dimension of architecture that gives it wings. Imaginary flight, 'winged eros,' is a crucial human gift, our capacity to travel upwards folded with our intimation of transcendence." - Dr. Alberto Pérez-Gómez, Bronfman Professor of Architectural History and Theory, McGill University
"Offering the ceiling as a site of inquiry can seem trivial or even frivolous in the face of so many weighty contemporary issues, but these reflections on the surfaces that hover above our heads provide a thoroughly engaging contribution to a topical philosophy of architecture." - Professor William W. Braham, University of Pennsylvania
"'Ceilings are vertical thresholds extending lived space into dream space and dream space into lived space,' writes Paul Emmons in his evocative introduction to this crucial and dreamy anthology he edited with Federica Goffi and Jodi La Coe. The debasement of ceilings during the 20th century has been one of the banes of my (taller-than-average) existence, and so what could be more necessary than a critical investigation of this state of affairs, both architectural and oneiric?" - Oliver Botar, University of Manitoba School of Art
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