Mankind’s quest for verticality has an underexplored dimension:
the queasy feeling of vertigo many experience when close to the edge of a sheer drop. Davide Deriu, Reader in Architectural History and Theory at the University of Westminster, London, has taken on the relative lack of research into the subject with an interdisciplinary approach, captured in his book On Balance: Architecture and Vertigo. Come, stand on the edge with us.
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Intro/Outro: "I Still Wear the Uniform," by The Cooper Vane
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Discussed:
          
Vertigo, Alfred Hitchcock, 1958
        
Vertical: The City from Satellites to Bunkers, Stephen Graham, 2016
        
Vertigo in the City program at University of Westminster, 2015
      
The Eiffel Tower and Other Mythologies, Roland Barthes, 1979
        
Funambulism
            
Jean François "Blondin" Gravelet – Niagara Falls wire walk, 1859
      
Philippe Petit, World Trade Center wire walk, 1974
            
Jan Gehl on humans’ “natural” habitat in horizontal planes
          
Singapore’s HDB social high-rises
           
Mies’ insertion of ventilation grilles in front of the glass curtain wall at the Seagram Building, 1958
         
Prosper Meniere, father of the vestibular sciences

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