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Earth, Water, Air, Fire
The Four Elements and Architecture
- 208 pages
- English
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- Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub
Available until 23 Dec |Learn more
About this book
Forced to interact with the natural elements that invigorate a built structure and co-determine a building's experiential reality during construction, one ought to keep in mind their brute powers – earth's crushing heaviness, the erratic character of water, air's thermo-dynamic cataclysms, or the dangerous benignity of fire. Affective in a direct way, they act as guiding principles in the process of realization: While the earth targets the foundations, the roof shields from water, the openings control the flow of air, and the walls protect from the gleaming sun.
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Table of contents
- The four Elements and Architecture Today
- Limits to Architecture
- Aristotle Barefoot
- Cosmos vs. Chaos
- Earth Water Air Fire
- Micro- and Macrocosm
- Pragmatic, Poetic, Sacred
- Beginnings
- Cartography of the Elements
- Earth
- Field Work
- Cave
- Ruins
- The Origin of the Work of Art
- On Foundations
- Earth and Mountains
- Can Tacó
- Water
- Palafitic
- Surrealism
- Bunkers
- Bunker Archeology
- Virilio and the Elements
- Panta Rhei and Plato's Revenge
- On Roofs
- Water and Landscape
- Piscinas do Atlântico
- Termas Geométricas
- Air
- Painting with Air
- Castles and Rocks
- Platonic Solids and Archetypes
- Universal Architecture
- Fuller and the Elements
- Weather, Clouds and Aerosols
- On Ventilation
- Thermodynamic Materialism
- Blur Building
- Fire
- Journey into the Fire
- Danger and Debility
- Sublime and Picturesque
- Infrastructure
- Strombolicchio
- Lava
- Light and Heat
- On Energy
- Fire and Light
- Bruder Klaus Chapel
- Identity and Modernity
- Li Xiadong
- Kevin Sun
- Fusion of the Senses
- The Context of the Context
- On Teaching
- Teaching Architecture
- Discovering and Sharing
- Pedagogical Ambition
- Building and Teaching