Eliot Eliosofon,
Marcel Duchamp Descends Staircase, 1952

Frank Lloyd Wright, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA © COAST

Die berühmte Doppelwendeltreppe, Grazer Burg

Andrea Pozzo, Composizione con scale, published in Antonii de Rubeis (ed.), Persepctiva pictorum et architectorum, Roma, 1723

Architecture Principe (Claude Parent, Paul Virilio)
La Fonction Oblique, 1965-66. Collection Frac Centre © Philippe Magnon

Architecture Principe (Claude Parent - Paul Virilio), La Fonction oblique, 1966. Collection Frac Centre © Philippe  Magnon

Jean-Jacques Annaud, Il Nome della Rosa, 1986. Movie after Umberto Eco's novel.

Vicino Orsini and Pirro Ligorio, Sacro Bosco di Bomarzo, 1552

Alvar Aalto / Perry Dean Rogers, Baker House Dormitory, MIT, 1946-59. Photo ©Peter Harris

Bom Jesus do Monte, 1722-1834

Chateau de Blois staircase 1515-1518 (Drawing: 1838)

Ettore Sottsass Jr., Metafore, Disegno di una scala per entrare in una casa molto ricca, 1974. Collection Frac Centre

Harmensz van Rijn Rembrandt, Philosopher in Meditation, 1632

Marcel Duchamp, Nu descendant l'escalier, 1912

Mayan Temple of Kukul Can, Chichen Itza, Mexico

Jean Androuet du Cerceau, Escalier en Fer à cheval
Château de Fontainebleau, 1632-34

Raymond Llull, The Creation as a Ladder of Ascent and Descent, 1305

Not Vital, House to Watch the Sunset, Flores, 2013 © Eric Gregory Powell

Sergei Eisenstein, Battleship Potekine, 1925

House of slaves, Gorée Island, Senegal, 2004
Photo © Lela Jefferson Fagan

Adalberto Libera, Casa Malaparte in movie by Jean-Luc Godard, Le Mépris, 1963

Walter De Maria, Time/Timeless/No Time, 2004. Chichu Art Museum, Benesse Art Site. 
© Michael Kellough.

Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers, Centre Pompidou, 1971-77

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Carceri, The Round Tower, 1761

Andrea Palladio, scala a doppia elica del castello di Chambord, Francia in I quattro libri dell’architettura, Libro Primo, cap. XVIII, 1570

Le Corbusier, Unité d'habitation, Marseille, 1945

Eadweard James Muybridge, Woman Walking Down Steps, photograph, 1887

Chateau de Chambord ©Ivan Soto

Eugène Viollet-Le-Duc, Dictionnaire raisonné de l’architecture française du XIe au XVIe siècle, Escaliers intérieurs, Édition BANCE — MOREL, 1854 - 1868

M.C.Escher, Relativity, lithograph, 1953

Frank Lloyd Wright
Fallingwater, Edgar J. Kaufmann House, Mill Run, Pennsylvania, 1934-37

Frederick H. Evans
"A Sea of Steps," Wells Cathedral, 1903

Gaetano Pesce, Projet de restructuration d'une villa
de la fin de l'époque romantique, 1973

Rev. Ralph Hardy, The Tulip Staircase Ghost, 1966

Giovanni Antonio Dosio, Cortile del belvedere secondo il progetto del Bramante, 1558-61

Busby Berkeley, Gold Diggers of 1935, 1935

Victor Fleming, Gone with the Wind, 1939

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Carceri, The Gothic Arch, 1761

Ricardo Bofill, La Muralla Roja (The Red Wall), 1973 ©Ricardo Bofill Taller de Arquitectura

Michelangelo, Biblioteca Laurenziana, 1523-34 ©MuseuminFlorence

Rachel Witheread, Untiltled (Stairs), 2001 © Rachel Whiteread

Hannsjörg Voth, Himmelstreppe, 1980-1987, Fotos ©Ingrid Amslinger

Alfred Hitchcock, Vertigo, 1958

Oscar Niemeyer, Palacio de Itamari, Brasilia, 1959-70
©yellowtrace, Bart Cheever, el diseño interior

Peter Bruegel The Elder, Turmbau zu Babel, 1563, Coll. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria

Superstudio,
Gli Atti Fondamentali: Cerimonia, 1971
Supersurface, Coll. Frac Centre, Orléans © François Lauginie

Walter Gropius and Adolf Meyer, Fagus Factory, Werkbund Exhibition, Köln, 1914

Cordonata in Santorini, The Cyclades, Greece

Santa Maria del Monte staircase, Caltagirone
©Guido Boccignone

Deir el-Bahari: Hatshepsut's temple, temple of Thutmosis III and Mentuhotep II, West Thebes , Egypt, approx. 2050 BC. Photograph: Nowic. Creative commons (CC BY-SA 3.0).

Tapisserie de Bayeux, Scene 19 : Dinans' siege, 1066-82. ©creative commons

Not Vital, Sunset House, 2005
Agadez, Niger ©Not Vital

Carlo Fontana, Scala Regia, Templum vaticanum et ipsius origo, Rome, 1694, p. 239

Led Zeppelin, Stairway To Heaven, 1971

Würzburg Residence: staircase by architect Johann Baltahazar Neumann (1737) and frescoes by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (1752-53)

Alessandro Specchi e Francesco De Sanctis, Scalinata della Trinità dei Monti, 1725. Photograph: Giacomo Brogi, before 1881.

Jean Dubuffet, Escalier III, 1967. ©Fondation Jean Dubuffet. 

Donato Bramante, Staircase of the Vatican Museums, 1505. 
Photograph: Daryll Mitchell

Santuario della Fortuna Primigenia, Palestrina, 2nd Century B.C.

Sandro Botticelli, La voragine infernale, Disegni per la Divina Commedia, 1480-95

Olafur Eliason, Umschreibung, 2004, KPMG Deutsche Treuhand-Gesellschaft, Munich, 2004. Photo: Engelhardt / Sellin ©Olafur Eliason

Nicolas Dipre, Le songe de Jacob, C.1490. Coll. Musée du Petit Palais, Avignon

Ferdinando Sanfelice, Palazzo dello Spagnolo, Napoli, 1738

Constant, New Babylon, book, 1963. Coll. Frac Centre, Orléans ©François Lauginie

Aldo Rossi, Monumento ai Partigiani con fontana, Segrate, 1965 - 1967. Fondazione Aldo Rossi, Milano, Italia

Didacus Valades, The Great Chain of Being, Rhetorica Christiana, 1579

Rudolph Steiner, Geothaneum, 1925-28

Palais des Festivals, Cannes

Leonardo da Vinci

Leonardo da Vinci

Schloss Sanssouci, Postdam, 1744

Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino, La scuola di Atene, 1511

Samrat Yantra, Jaipur Observatory, India, 1686-1743. (Photograph: 1915)

Notre Dame de Paris cathedral

Didier Faustino, Stairway to Heaven,
2001. Collection : MoMA, USA

Double helical stair, Chambord castle, 1519-47

Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Gruppo di Scale ornato di magnifica Architettura . . .Prima Parte di Architettura, e Prospettive, circa 1750.

Jim Henson, The Labyrinth, 1986

Aldo Rossi, Monumento a Sandro Pertini, 1988-90

Copan’s Great Hieroglyphic Stairway, Honduras, 8th century B.C.

Le Corbusier, Ronchamp church, 1950-55