Earth, water, air, fire : the four elements and architecture / Josep Lluís Mateo & Florian Sauter (eds.).

New York : ACTAR Publishers, 2014.
New York ; Barcelona : Distributed by Actar D

213 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm

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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9781940291468

Architecture Environmental aspects.
Sustainable architecture.
Architecture Aspect de l'environnement.
Architecture durable.
20.21 iconographic themes.
21.62 history of architecture.

Mateo, José Luis, 1949- editor.
Sauter, Florian, 1978- editor.
Architectural papers (Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich)

Four elements and architecture

Localisation: Bibliothèque main 288618
Cote: BIB 230378
Statut: Disponible