Ceilings and Dreams

Ceilings and Dreams
Author :
Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 393
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781351065849
ISBN-13 : 135106584X
Rating : 4/5 (49 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Ceilings and Dreams by : Paul Emmons

Download or read book Ceilings and Dreams written by Paul Emmons and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-07-08 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Related Books

Ceilings and Dreams
Language: en
Pages: 393
Authors: Paul Emmons
Categories: Architecture
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-07-08 - Publisher: Routledge

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

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 Rena
Dream Analysis in Psychotherapy
Language: en
Pages: 152
Authors: Lillie Weiss
Categories: Body, Mind & Spirit
Type: BOOK - Published: 1986 - Publisher: Pergamon

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Glass Ceiling and Ambivalent Sexism
Language: en
Pages: 234
Authors: Dr. Sarita Jain
Categories:
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-09-18 - Publisher: Booksclinic Publishing

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This book has raised an essential and requisite voice against the disparity and maltreatment of women either working or inland in the name of being emotional, w
Dreams That Can Save Your Life
Language: en
Pages: 400
Authors: Larry Burk
Categories: Body, Mind & Spirit
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-04-17 - Publisher: Simon and Schuster

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

An exploration of dreams as a spiritual source of healing and inner guidance for your health and well-being • 2018 Nautilus Silver Award • Shares stories--c
Through the Glass Ceiling to the Stars
Language: en
Pages: 296
Authors: Eileen M. Collins
Categories: Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-10-19 - Publisher: Simon and Schuster

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The long-awaited memoir of a trailblazer and role model who is telling her story for the first time. Eileen Collins was an aviation pioneer her entire career, f