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Overview"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." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Luis Fernández-Galiano , Gina CariñoPublisher: MIT Press Ltd Imprint: MIT Press Dimensions: Width: 13.70cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 20.30cm Weight: 0.522kg ISBN: 9780262561334ISBN 10: 0262561336 Pages: 240 Publication Date: 22 December 2000 Recommended Age: From 18 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: No Longer Our Product Availability: Awaiting stock The supplier is currently out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out for you. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor InformationCynthia Davidson is the editor of ANY Magazine, the director of Anyone Corporation, and a member of the editorial board of the Writing Architecture series (MIT Press). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |