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Earth, Water, Air, Fire: The Four Elements and Architecture

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Earth, Water, Air, Fire: The Four Elements and Architecture - Mateo, Josep Lluis, and Sauter, Florian
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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 ...

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Earth, Water, Air, Fire: The Four Elements and Architecture 2014, Actar, New York City

ISBN-13: 9781940291468

English edition

Hardcover