Architectures of Fire: Processes, Space and Agency in Pyrotechnologies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Architectures of Fire: Processes, Space and Agency in Pyrotechnologies write by Dragos Gheorghiu. This book was released on 2019-10-24. Architectures of Fire: Processes, Space and Agency in Pyrotechnologies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Papers presented here originate from a session held during the 2015 Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists (Glasgow). The contributors attempt to present the entanglement between the physical phenomenon of fire, the pyro-technological instrument that it is, its material supports, and the human being.
Fire and Memory
Fire and Memory - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Fire and Memory write by Luis Fernández-Galiano. This book was released on 2000. Fire and Memory available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The author reconstructs the movement from cold to warm architecture, reintroduces energy to the discussion, and reminds the reader the sense of touch is necessary to an understanding of the environment. Illustrations.
Earth, Water, Air, Fire
Earth, Water, Air, Fire - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Earth, Water, Air, Fire write by José Luis Mateo. This book was released on 2014. Earth, Water, Air, Fire available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Fire Island Modernist
Fire Island Modernist - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Fire Island Modernist write by Christopher Bascom Rawlins. This book was released on 2013. Fire Island Modernist available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the Sixties, architect Horace Gifford executed a remarkable series of beach houses that transformed the terrain and culture of New York's Fire Island. Growing up on the beaches of Florida, Gifford forged a deep connection with coastal landscapes. Pairing this sensitivity with jazzy improvisations on modernist themes, he perfected a sustainable modernism in cedar and glass that was as attuned to natural landscapes as to our animal natures. Gifford's serene 1960s pavilions provided refuge from a hostile world, while his exuberant post-Stonewall, pre-AIDS masterpieces orchestrated bacchanals of liberation. Celebrities lived in modestly scaled homes alongside middle-class vacationers, all with equal access to Fire Island's natural beauty. Blending cultural and architectural history, this book ponders a fascinating era through an overlooked architect whose life, work and colorful milieu trace the operatic arc of a lost generation, and still resonate with artistic and historical import.
Bracing for Disaster
Bracing for Disaster - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Bracing for Disaster write by Stephen Tobriner. This book was released on 2015-05-01. Bracing for Disaster available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “The first history of seismic engineering in San Francisco . . . spiced with survivor and eyewitness accounts. ”—Midwest Book Review For the past one hundred and fifty years, architects and engineers have quietly been learning from each quake and designing newer earthquake-resistant building techniques and applying them in an ongoing effort to save San Francisco. Bracing for Disaster is a fresh appraisal of a city responding to repeated devastation. In the language of a skilled teacher, Tobriner examines what really happened during the city’s earthquakes—which buildings were damaged, which survived, and who were the unsung heroes. Filled with more than two hundred photographs, diagrams, and illustrations, this is a revealing look at the history of buildings by a true expert, and it offers lessons not just for San Francisco but for any city beset by natural disasters. “The real saga is how a fast-growing city grapples with the reality that it has more to worry about than fires and fog. The core of the story is fairly technical, rooted in the crude intuitive ways in which builders reacted to a seismic threat they could neither measure nor define. But Tobriner crafts the story well.”—SFGate
