The Essay - Head in the Clouds
Series of essays about the phenomenon of clouds and their shifting role in art, architecture and the cultural imagination
The Essay - Head in the Clouds - A Rent in the Clouds
Architectural historian Robert Harbison considers the fascination with clouds in the baroque period, exploring the depiction of ever-expanding spaces using cloud-ceilings.
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The Essay - Head in the Clouds - Constructing Clouds
Architectural historian Mark Dorrian considers the fascination with cloud-like buildings, from constructions by Frank Gehry, to attempts to put up buildings that float on air.
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The Essay - Head in the Clouds - Dark Clouds
Cultural historian Steve Connor examines the depiction of clouds in the popular imagination - from Norse mythology to the fiction of Don DeLillo.
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The Essay - Head in the Clouds - The Nebular Turn
Cultural historian and architect Mark Dorrian examines the influence of the cloud as a metaphor, as a portent and as a vehicle for meaning, drawing on thinkers, poets and artists.
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The Essay - Head in the Clouds - Thought-Cloud
Professor Esther Leslie examines the image of the clouds as a model of thought and the imagination itself - from Immanuel Kant to comic strip thought-clouds.
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