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On Balance - Architecture and Vertigo (Hardcover)
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On Balance - Architecture and Vertigo (Hardcover)
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Since the construction of the first skyscrapers in the nineteenth
century, urban environments have been increasingly marked by
verticality. The experience of modernity fed a spatialised lexicon
derived from the sense of balance - 'groundlessness', 'suspension'
and 'freefall' - which resonates acutely today. At a time of
instability, the rise and rise of vertical cities poses new
challenges to the perception of gravity, but the implications of
vertigo remain unacknowledged. This book reflects on the precarious
equilibrium at the heart of contemporary cities, where the drive to
conquer ever greater heights has reconfigured our notion of abyss.
Through an interdisciplinary approach informed by social and
medical sciences, the book explores how built environments elicit a
range of spatial thrills as well as anxieties. On Balance first
provides an overview of how the modern discourse on vertigo has
permeated the sciences, arts and humanities. The second part of the
book shifts the attention to spatial practices predicated on the
mastery of vertigo such as climbing and wire walking. The final
part moves into the realm of architectural culture, offering an
original reading of modern and contemporary spaces that affect our
perceptual stability. Since the turn of millennium, urban
environments have been increasingly turned into gravity playgrounds
as new and existing buildings alike furnish the stages for visceral
thrills. On Balance argues that, within the experience economy,
architecture has become a site for games of vertigo. The loss of
grounding is not only an inherently spatialised experience, but one
that is bound up with the design and representation of space.
Hence, this book provokes up to consider architecture as deeply
implicated in our perception of balance at multiple sensory,
spatial and social levels.
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