Sense of Place. Sense of Space

I think that people back in the 19. century could really enjoy life and living in spacious places. According to some Czech data in the 19. century ppl were aprox. 165 cm tall. Only 3 % of population was taller than 180 cm.

Nowadays in the Czech Republic (data from 1999) 30 % of population is taller than 180 cm. I was already writing about similair topic here. I am personally 187 cm tall.

But what I want to write about today is bit different and concerns architecture.

The buildings from the end of the 19. century have ceilings 3,8 meter. Nowadays the standard is around 2,6 meter. And yet we are much taller. So in the 19. century people would have space above their heads for 2 meters at least. Nowadays, if you are tall like 190 cm you have no problem touching the ceiling with your hands, so you have like 60 cm above your head... that is quite huge difference.