![]() ![]() Sometimes, she is tethered to castle grounds with a rope, simply to keep her from drifting up into the air. And not just metaphorically: “Deprived … of all her gravity,” in the storyteller’s words, the princess is unmoored - literally. Three of their stories are fairy tales, including “The Light Princess,” which features a young woman in late adolescence whose mental predicament, on the surface of things, appears to be the opposite of Adela’s existential depression: she has been cursed by a vindictive elder with a lack of seriousness. As part of her cure, some friends and family are formed into a Society of Storytellers it is their sympathetic narration that comprises the bulk of the novel. ![]() The main character of George MacDonald’s 1864 literary novel Adela Cathcart is an adolescent girl receiving homeopathic treatment for an illness of the spirit. Kate Bernheimer & Andrew Bernheimer The Light Princess ![]() This project presents a new path of inquiry, a new line of flight into architecture as a fantastic, literary realm of becoming. How many architects, young and old, have been inspired by a hero who must imagine new realms and new spaces - new ways of being in this strange world? Houses in fairy tales are never just houses they always contain secrets and dreams. All drawings and animations by Bernheimer Architecture with Christiana MacGregor and Amanda Park.įairy tales have transfixed readers for thousands of years, and for many reasons one of the most compelling is the promise of a magical home. ![]()
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