Ceilings and Dreams (PDF)

Paul Emmons is a registered architect; Associate Dean for Graduate Studies, College of Architecture and Urban Studies at Virginia Tech; and a professor at the Washington-Alexandria Architecture Center, where he coordinates the PhD program in Architecture + Design Research. Dr. Emmons earned a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania and a Master of Architecture from the University of Minnesota. His research focuses on theories of practice and drawing in architectural design. In addition to his forthcoming book Drawing Imagining Building: Embodiment in Architectural Drawing Practices, he is a co-editor of Confabulations, Storytelling in Architecture (2017) and The Cultural Role of Architecture (2012).

Federica Goffi is an Associate Professor (2007-present) and Co-Chair of the PhD program at the Azrieli School of Architecture and Urbanism at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. She holds a PhD from the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. She published book chapters and journal articles on the threefold nature of time-weather-tempo. Her book, Time Matter[s]: Invention and Re-imagination in Built Conservation: The Unfinished Drawing and Building of St. Peter's in the Vatican, was published by Ashgate in 2013. She holds a Dottore in Architettura from the University of Genoa, Italy. She is a licensed architect in her native country, Italy.