Earth, Water, Air, Fire
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Earth, Water, Air, Fire

The Four Elements and Architecture

  1. 208 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub
Available until 23 Dec |Learn more

Earth, Water, Air, Fire

The Four Elements and Architecture

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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Information

Publisher
Actar
Year
2021
eBook ISBN
9781638408185
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Table of contents

  1. The four Elements and Architecture Today
  2. Limits to Architecture
  3. Aristotle Barefoot
  4. Cosmos vs. Chaos
  5. Earth Water Air Fire
  6. Micro- and Macrocosm
  7. Pragmatic, Poetic, Sacred
  8. Beginnings
  9. Cartography of the Elements
  10. Earth
  11. Field Work
  12. Cave
  13. Ruins
  14. The Origin of the Work of Art
  15. On Foundations
  16. Earth and Mountains
  17. Can Tacó
  18. Water
  19. Palafitic
  20. Surrealism
  21. Bunkers
  22. Bunker Archeology
  23. Virilio and the Elements
  24. Panta Rhei and Plato's Revenge
  25. On Roofs
  26. Water and Landscape
  27. Piscinas do Atlântico
  28. Termas Geométricas
  29. Air
  30. Painting with Air
  31. Castles and Rocks
  32. Platonic Solids and Archetypes
  33. Universal Architecture
  34. Fuller and the Elements
  35. Weather, Clouds and Aerosols
  36. On Ventilation
  37. Thermodynamic Materialism
  38. Blur Building
  39. Fire
  40. Journey into the Fire
  41. Danger and Debility
  42. Sublime and Picturesque
  43. Infrastructure
  44. Strombolicchio
  45. Lava
  46. Light and Heat
  47. On Energy
  48. Fire and Light
  49. Bruder Klaus Chapel
  50. Identity and Modernity
  51. Li Xiadong
  52. Kevin Sun
  53. Fusion of the Senses
  54. The Context of the Context
  55. On Teaching
  56. Teaching Architecture
  57. Discovering and Sharing
  58. Pedagogical Ambition
  59. Building and Teaching