Stairs. Labour and happiness in architecture Authors Petr Kapustin Voronezh State Technical University image/svg+xml Downloads PDF (Russian) DOI: https://doi.org/10.51461/pb.73.15 Published 2022-10-21 Issue No. 73 (2022): happiness Section refereed articles License This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. How to Cite Stairs. Labour and happiness in architecture. (2022). Project Baikal, 19(73), 88-96. https://doi.org/10.51461/pb.73.15 More Citation Formats ACM ACS APA ABNT Chicago Harvard IEEE MLA Turabian Vancouver Download Citation Endnote/Zotero/Mendeley (RIS) BibTeX Keywords: Arab culture, traditions; Levant, history, music, architecture, rabab Abstract Being an integral and necessary element of buildings and structures, stairs is considered not from the common point of view of regulation and construction, but in the presumption of the existence independent of our will, as if we knew nothing about stairs and, first seeing them, began to master them with surprise and inspiration. It seems that such a view is capable of discovering the new in the familiar. References Alexander, C., Isikawa, I., & Silverstein, M. (1978). A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction. London: Oxford University Press. De Certeau, M. (2008). Walking in the city. Sociological Review, 7(2), 24-38. Etimologiya slova Lestnitsa [Etymology of the word Staircase] (n.d.). Encyclopedia of the Latinist. Retrieved June 30, 2022, from http://literra.listbb.ru/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=1524 Kapustin, P. (2018). Labyrinth. Project Baikal, 15(58), 68-75. https://doi.org/10.7480/projectbaikal.58.1405