Earth, water, air, fire : the four elements and architecture /
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 catacl...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
ACTAR Publishers,
2014
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| Summary: | 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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| Item Description: | "Earth Water Air Fire is the last issue of the Architectural Papers series edited by the Chair of Josep Lluís Mateo"--Page 213. |
| Physical Description: | 213 σ. : έγχρ. εικ. 22 εκ. |
| ISBN: | 9781940291468 |
