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Ceilings and dreams : the architecture of levity / edited by Paul Emmons, Federica Goffi and Jodi La Coe

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Oxon : Routledge, 2020Description: xxv, 252 pages : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781138479388
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 721.7
Contents:
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
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Book Book Cubao Branch Reference Section Reference R 721.7 C391 2020 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) c. 2 Room use only 52831QC
Book Book Main Library Reference Section Reference R 721.7 C391 2020 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) c. 1 Room use only 52830QC

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

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