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It is the complex and relational qualities of vertigo which are detailed so thoroughly in I On Balance i as it addresses both the architectural forms which prompt vertiginous experiences, and the social, political and poetic implications of giddiness, lightness, and the denial of gravity. Through these accounts of spatial experiences I On Balance i also makes us aware of the history of vertigo as a story of great loss, as these practices are continually co-opted by neoliberalism or subsumed within the experience economy. I On Balance: Architecture and Vertigo i by Davide Deriu opens with an account of Goethe ascending the spire of Strasburg cathedral in 1771. [Extracted from the article]