Fire and Memory: On Architecture and Energy

by Luis Fernández-Galiano

Architecture and fire, construction and combustion, meet in this poetic treatise on energy in building. In Fire and Memory , Luis Fern ndez-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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262561336
• ISBN13: 9780262561334
• Release Date: December 2000
• Publisher: Mit Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.4" x 8.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher