
Fire and Memory
On Architecture and Energy
Luis Fernandez-Galiano(Author)
MIT Press
Published on 2. February 2001
Book
Paperback/Softback
240 pages
978-0-262-56133-4 (ISBN)
Description
Architecture and fire, construction and combustion, meet in this poetic treatise on energy in building.In Fire and Memory, Luis Fernández-Galiano reconstructs the movement from cold to warm architecture, from building fire to building a building with and for fire, through what he calls a "metaphorical plundering" of disciplines as diverse as anthropology and economics, and in particular of ecology and thermodynamics. Beginning with the mythical fire in the origins of architecture and moving to its symbolic representation in the twentieth century, Galiano develops a theoretical dialogue between combustion and construction that ranges from Vitruvius to Le Corbusier, from the mechanical and organic to time and entropy. Galiano points out that energy, so important to the origin of architectural theory in Vitruvius's time, has been absent from architectural theory since the introduction of the "dictatorship of the eye" over that of the skin. With Fire and Memory, he reintroduces energy to the discussion of architecture and reminds us that the sense of touch is as necessary to an understanding of the environment as the sense of sight.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge, Mass.
United States
Publishing group
MIT Press Ltd
Target group
US School Grade: College Graduate Student and over
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 203 mm
Width: 137 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
522 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-262-56133-4 (9780262561334)
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