Ceilings and Dreams : The Architecture of Levity (Paperback)

1. From Below Upwards: An Introduction to Ceilings and Dreams Paul Emmons Reverie 2. Cloud Nine: A Lover’s Guide Don Kunze 3. From the Igluvigaq to the Sila: Ceilings in the Inuit Imagination Emelie Desrochers-Turgeon 4. Hagia Sophia’s Dome: A Mythopoeic Dreamspace Tugce Akinci 5. Dreaming the Body: Filarete’s Disegno Berrin Terim 6. Eleven Angels in the Ceiling of Flames: Architectural Speculations in the Ducal Library of Urbino Tracey Eve Winton 7. Nightmares of Broken Ceilings: The Shell, the God and the Mold Karima Benbih Suspense 8. Perplexing Ceiling Structures: Dreaming the Details of the Broken Beam in the Chongming Temple Qi Zhu 9. The Plafond as a Place of Transmutation: Architecture of Levity in the Eighteenth Century Louise Pelletier 10. Storywork. Henry Chapman Mercer’s Cast-in-Place Tile Vaults and the Invention of Practice Luc Phinney 11. Ceilings of Infinite Extension: Konrad Wachsmann’s Mediating ‘Overhead’ Ezgi ??bilen 12. Under-Standing Counter-ceilings: The Multiverse of Gazing and Listening in the Ambiances by Carlo Scarpa and Luigi Nono Federica Goffi 13. Cracked but not Broken: Material and Culture of the Glass Ceiling Aki Ishida Inversion 14. The Nightmare of Condensation Jonathan Foote and Carolina Dayer 15. Dreaming the Fourth Dimension: Laszlo Moholy-Nagy’s Inversions Jodi La Coe 16. Life, Superceiling Kieran Connolly 17. Three Ghosts and a Baldachin: Boredom and (Day)dreaming in Two Drawings by Saul Steinberg Andreea Mihalache 18. A Theater of Architectural Monsters Sam Ridgway 19. The Architect Inside?Out: Sangath, Ahmedabad Office of Balkrishna Doshi Pallavi Swaranjali 20. Looking down to Look up Marcia F. Feuerstein Index