Title: Fire and memory : on architecture and energy /
Authors: Fernández-Galiano, Luis.
Publisher: MIT Press,
Year: 2000
Subjects: Architecture and energy conservation; Solar buildings.; Symbolism in architecture.
Abstract: "In Fire and Memory, Luis Fernandez-Galiano reconstructs the historical, theoretical, and contemporary relationship between architecture and energy, calling on disciplines as diverse as anthropology and economics, and in particular on ecology and thermodynamics. Beginning with the mythical fire at 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.
Contents: 1. Architecture discovers fire: construction and combustion in the oven and the hearth : On matter and energy: architecture between mud and breath ; The building as an exosomatic: a process containing processes ; The hut and the bonfire: built order, combustible disorder ; Fire in the childhood of architecture: myths of origin, foundation rites ; Fire in the architecture of childhood: nostalgias and dreams ; Besides the fire that dwells in buildings, the fire that builds the dwelling ; The clockwork sun and the unpredictable fire: cosmologies and cosmogonies ; A philosophical building and two building philosophies: solar Le Corbusier, igneous Wright --^